Design Festa 2004

Three rooms from the Long House are utilized as templates to generate three
sets of four unique yet genetically similar conditions.

The first and third sets are occupied spaces influenced by the
Impressionist-era work of Edouard Manet, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Japanese artist Hokuju and 19th-Century
illustrators John Tenniel and W.W. Denslow. The Shimmering Room and the
Inner Room templates are used as spatial navigators in the exploration of
each painting where scale and orientation of the template is synthesized
onto and into the space. In this experiment, Richard is revealing another
spatial dialogue within each image creating a conductive formula — or
conversation — illustrating what he believed the original artist implied,
thusly, enhancing and complimenting the original work. The composition
portrays a suggested architectural envelope implied by spatial and color
ques within the paintings.

The second set represents four houses generated from the Florida Room
template. Each template is transformed by its relative kinetic orientation
and site connection. In this experiment, Richard implies that static space
and kinetic occupational behavior become fluid experiences irrespective of
spatial subscriptions. His goal is to illustrate that the ability to
generate space is inexhaustible.