The project challenges the idea of perceived enclosures vs. true enclosures. The idea of 3 dimensionality is questioned by reverse engineering an object through lines and grids. Through the translation of the grid and the augmentation of its nodes, new surfaces and forms are developed, leading towards a new underlying grid.

Mies’s Mansion House is taken as the object of experimentation for this process. Through a series of offset and rotational operations, lines achieved via grids of the Mandrel House are translated to create an augmented grid. The physical offset and rotation allows a parallel to escape 2D and enter 2 ½D. By virtue of mimicking an analog effect robotically, the physicality of an object in the form of a pen is then added to the new augmented grid. By adding the qualities of the pen, an analog implication is fed forward and superimposed with the digital process. All these effects blur the purity of the 3D form and decrease its legibility.

Material effects, through the analog processes create a physical rendering of the perception of the augmented grid, which then forms the enclosure