We were invited to participate in Model Behavior, a show at the Cooper Union, exploring the role of models in contemporary architecture.

Our contribution was to exhibit our experiments in new forms of architectural representation for our project, the 4-Square House.

The 4-Square House explores the architectural relationships between figure and ground, solid and void, or the positive and negative of architecture within the confines of a four square grid that is encapsulated within an artificial atmosphere, experienced through augmented reality.

This project takes on the physical organization of a Klein four-group to capture a variety of binary interconnections between spaces and concept such as domesticity, materiality, and our distorted understanding of nature as an augmentation of atmosphere over real space.

Sketch of augmented reality layers

Early model tracking tests and digital tree occlusion test with simulated cast shadow.