Borrominations
Public Interiors
Harvard University, Cambridge, 2014
Professors: Ciro Najle, Hanif Kara
Assistant: Peter Zuroweste
Students: Ben Burdick, Nelson Byun, Dongah Cho, See Jia Ho, Michael Leef, Charlotte Lipschitz, Tristan McGuire,
Rachel Moranis, Thena Tak, Art Terry
Borrominations focuses on the ubiquitous phenomenon by which public space in the contemporary city has become the ultimate form of commodity, surprisingly substantiating, as if undeniably, the current social value of architecture.
Borrominations engages the work of Francesco Borromini as a model for the architect of the masses of sheer indifference, San Carlino as the model where austerely excessive organizations acquire poignancy through the enrichment of typologies and forms of classical order beyond their limits, Bryant Park as a case of turbulently gentle metropolitan sites, complex geometry as the amoral medium to drive organizations out of their spectrum of determination, and the archetype of the dome as the ultimate spatial primitive to host contemporary public space. Borrominations are models of aberrant public interiors capable to galvanize the indifferent masses of the present by means of sheer poignancy. It adopts the complex spatial relationships of San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane as a medium to enrich the protocols of anti-urban typologies and unfold them beyond their normative limits.
