In the Pazzi Chapel the porch acts a series of perforated screens/skins that announce and heighten the progression to the alter.
In the Medici Chapel there is a desire to explore space as a voluptuous volume. The dashed lines in plan indicate a presence of unseen bodies that are ultimately reduced to imprints on the surface of the walls and ceiling in the same way that Beyonce's paints shadows on her stomach to suggest the appearance of muscles.
Borromini plays out rule based operations in order to resolve multiple bodies (the trinity) into a singular oculus. The church appears to act as a skin containing a series of weightless bodies in an orgy of becoming.
In Sante-Genevieve space is accumulated as a series of interconnected pockets that operate within a single body. The diagonal cross section through the dome reveals cavities inside a structural casing.
In the Nortre Dame de Haut the church is dissected and reassembled without its center. The affect is one of dead weight, not only by the forces registered by the roof, and the absent center, but also in the way that the punctured wall reads as a vertical mortuary.
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Sam
Take time to develop the cell based on collision, allow it to evolve and take advantage of its characteristics. The pealing surface can provide opportunities for tectonic connection micro behaviors. Explore methods to control the balance between surface and mass. Some of the techniques that are developing in the tripart cell can be redeployed here as well. Properties of material; thickness, layering, density all seem very important in both you cells and your research. Explore methods of working with both surface (nurbs) and solids (subdivisions).
Define parameters of success, what makes one variation of the cell better than another, this should be based more on paths of evolution/differentiation rather than simply intuitive choice among slightly different configurations. Microbehaviors should inform connection and determine the evolutionary path of the cells.
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