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Tectonic Compositions
Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design
School project, Master’s program, 2017
The course Mirror, mirror introduced us students to a backwards design process where the starting point was with real architectural elements. Tectonic Compositions is the result of borrowing and reusing nineteen building elements from a donor structure, manipulating them into a taxonomy and then finally arranging them into principles using three different randomizing tasks. Each of the six principles has been given a name according to the feeling or action it evokes in me.
![Taxonomy](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2370f05a86627879e95a678bbe32de6d7e850e1e0b0d27bf50e58af3f33d410a/taxonomy.little.jpg)
![Task 3.1](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30dfad3e77eb1090a38792db6902d100882f71c2df66b15094c4cabb122b06cd/task3.1-01.jpg)
![Task 3.2](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc39a3eeea987f8238b66fdd1652aead50c0b22426775c603aeb047171ffb7de/task3.2-01-01.jpg)
![Task 3.3](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/278bef8b6455c615c46f8bee1ebe33cb0799a18a256cc437035cf8029b86ebfa/task3.3-01-01-01.jpg)
![Task 3.4](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0a793ddc95896987b837997b2f9338996e0168c4c120969f7526fecccb86ccd/task3.4-01-01-01-01.jpg)
![Task 3.5](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac585afc36b91ae1c6495a5654c814faf508155f4847ec28bcfcb803ef574cef/task3.5-01-01-01-01-01.jpg)
A grand entrance draws me in and invites me to play. The balancing act is two opposing elements joined creating uneasiness. Will they hold the weight of my body? A lookout wants me to climb, ascend, mount! The stack is a fairly neat heap strengthening verticality, drawing my gaze up. Walking past a twosome, showing off its repetition, pleases my eye. The inclination is a connection by leaning, one element relying on another wanting me to lean on it.
![Task 2.1](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37e26437ffc0abed390fcd11d43e3808c7de9913297b5d13db09b86b9edb2cac/Frida_McDavitt_Wallin_task2.1-01-01.jpg)
![Task 2.2](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4d561e4c16fbf2c011bd938c92fa596dad0c3ee82fb708bbcd5a424f78111b3/Frida_McDavitt_Wallin_task2.2-01-01.jpg)
![Task 2.3](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fc3fa0cb037b51bbe16389beed24d722666b54bf88aad4e10d2c1da4a5d66b1/Frida_McDavitt_Wallin_task2.3-01-01.jpg)
![Task 2.4](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/772a39dd65fb5995e33866b0b4d797b2fefcc2418d05a38365df8d94d84a7f32/Frida_McDavitt_Wallin_task2.4-01-01.jpg)
![Task 2.5](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/acbb7638902664fcaacbf3050f0770868cda20e6689fd2155be790bd6a76c7a9/Frida_McDavitt_Wallin_task2.5-01-01.jpg)
The original elements borrowed from the donor structure have been so far removed from its original context that they have lost a lot of their meaning. My Master’s thesis project, Sandhagen 2, further investigates reuse (spolia) using a similar method to the one described on this page, but with less manipulation of the original architectural elements.
![Task 1.1](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e82de8629b7ee39b3e16b25a218472b31182e11b2547ec3ada3a7bd8ad74ab51/1.1-01.jpg)
![Task 1.2](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64f5948458dd7345ca9b4bea82d14992e038f655dc56d950c22b55952190614f/1.2-01.jpg)
![Task 1.3](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3867425332fff4216ea080d4f776c60f6f35c8349e703a8f729c160a3d67215/1.3-01.jpg)
![Task 1.4](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/240c76fd7eec32cd362e4468fd2c5d855fd045a15aaab23079587f2490b14bd3/1.4-01.jpg)
![Task 1.5](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ef3b9a3d92e1136535aca6082028fba71a30124c171addd4e1984286b99732c/1.5-01-01.jpg)