HYPERSECTION
Institution: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Faculty: Niccolo Casas, Gabriel Esquivel
Team: Hannah Aldridge, Mackenzie Dillard, Garrett Farmer, Mindy Hogan, Nicholas Houser, Ian Saenz, Hahnur Kim, Lauren Lycan, Cesar Martinez, Cody Sonnier, Alyssa Thomas, Ozzy Veliz
*PUBLISHED in ACADIA 2019: Ubiquity and Autonomy
Hypersection is a term, a concept and a procedure debating the processes of transitions that are non mediated. It is intended as a specific way to integrate distinct items, a way that doesn’t require adaptation, bending or adjustment, in which it is absolute and not gradual.
The “Hypersecting Objects” installation was constructed to disclose the unexpected and unexpressed qualities of distinct objects that hypersect. Hypersection, in the way it occurs, it connects and separates at the same time; it intentionally preserves and breaks all existing relations, destabilizing what things are and revealing novel emergent and non explicit
qualities.
Hypersection displays a unique emerging effect, that of producing continuity within discontinuity. Each hypersection is a non-mediated interaction that concurrently engenders UNION and SEPARATION in an emergent continuous sign that both keeps separate and joins its generators. The non-adherence between superficial patterns or surface components with the architectural body generates a sort of discrepancy, similar to that of slippage, that has the generative quality of creating a series of strangely alluring design moments.
All compositional elements were conceived separately, preserving their formal identities, this by privileging non-mediated interactions and colliding overlays; booleans, overlaps, interruptions, crossings, steps and pauses.