AAMES

This studio debated on the correlation between domestic and public facts and their corresponding images during the COVID-19 era, and the influence that these exert upon the reception of architecture from broader audiences. By obsessively surveying spaces, not just physically and materially, but experientially, emotionally and performative, and appropriating each and all of their coordinates through complex and innovative modes of architectural documentation and representation, we will aim to produce a fictional narrative presented as architectural images.

AAMES (Alden Andrew Michael Eunice) uses a domestic exquisite corpse, stitching a space from each member’s domestic environment in quarantine to explore perceptions of “facts,” detachment through technology, surveillance, and how dependency on digital media can exacerbate the muddying of reality. AAMES explores how extreme situations such as the quarantine period in the advent of a pandemic can lead to the muddying of facts and narratives, and how the increasing trend of living indoors as the digital infrastructure closes in around domesticity, with the potential for generating any truth, while a veneer of control may still exist.

UCLA AUD TECH III, under Professor Georgina Huljich

Group project in collaboration with Alden Kramer, Andrew Frastaci, and Eunice Han.

Published in UCLA AUD Student Work and in RUMBLE 2020 (under “images beyond facts”).

TECH III, Professor Georgina Huljich