Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries.
  - Robin Evans, “Figures, Doors and Passages”
 

 OBJECT/ACTION FIGURE

 Despite the thin skin and emptied contents, this object is reluctant to surrender its vacuum-formed form. A robust corporeal engagement is required for access. By probing the material and formal resistances of the bottle, the studio found opportunities to rethink the object and register verbs into its body. In most cases, “to section” was the initial move (a reasonable course for architects in pursuit of information), followed by subsequent, deformative actions. The cumulative effect is a set of things that allow new opportunities for engagement and behavior.


 

to section>to weave>to reconfigure Louise Burton to section>to invert Brian Hinz  to double>to cast James Warne  to split>to gather>to bind Chan Sholz to section>to nest>to bind Jennifer Lang     to split>to invert>to cast Brian Hinz       Doug Bergert - Fall 2001 – University of Minnesota Department of Architecture  This project of rethinking and deforming an everyday form was pursued through the application of actions from Richard Serra’s Verb List. The site of this work was the Tide 100 fluid ounce, plastic detergent bottle.

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