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ARCHITECTURE AND THE POSTNATURAL
This section of of Final Project explored the simultaneous proximity of of and separation between the the the human human and and the the the nonhuman the the the architecture and and the environment by producing material formal and spatial as as well as as programmatic qualities and conditions that are situated between the two and thus inherently ambiguous Irreducible to either the the artificial
or or the the natural the the work sought instead to displace such distinctions by producing environments imbued with qualities and conditions more akin to what architectural theorist David Gissen might call “postnaturalism ” whereby a a a a a work of architecture embraces the “disciplinary tensions that produce concepts of nature and architecture simultaneously ” In this way the the work resists a a a a a resolution to to what Gissen calls the the “historical crisis” of nature–culture distinctions such that the inherent tension and conflict between the the the two is neither ignored nor nor resolved but rather revealed acknowledged and addressed for what it is: that is is is is a a a a a a a crisis Such ambiguity produces qualities of the uncanny in which artificial
and natural phenomena previously thought to be separate and distinct from one another fold entangle and cross over themselves producing neither total total integration nor total total separation 685