Emergent Transparency Defined Through Experience,Enrique Limon, LimonLab Design USA

“EMERGENT TRANSPARENCY VIA EXPERIENCE”, OCT 23-24, LJUBLJANA
Enrique Limon, LimonLab Design USA

LimonLab Design, New York, is a newly-established (2005) urban laboratory dedicated to the advancement of architectural, urban and interior design. Rick Limon has also taught at the Pratt lnstitute School of Architecture, Brooklyn, NY as visiting assistant professor of architecture in comprehensive design studio on Housing. He’s currently teaching second year architectural design with an emphasis on the design of a Kindergarten and an urban library.
Current LimonLab projects include: Prototype for a Soccer park which could be implemented in 200 locations throughout the U.S., a glass beach-house on Fire lsland, NY, a night club in central Philadelphia, a theater renovation for the New School in NYC, two apartments in Miami Florida, a guesthouse in Waialua, Hawaii, and an auditorium building for the Sereclipi School in Kenya.

Emergent Transparency departs from the modernists’ argument of Robert Slusky and Colin Rowe’s Literal and Phenomenal transparency as pictorial in terms of invoking a two-dimensional phenomenology that fixed the observer in a position on axis with the plane of the façade as if viewing a painting and in line with but in contrast to Sigfried Giedion and Lazlo Maholy Nagy’s idea of transparency based on a phenomenology of spatial perceptions.
For Maholy Nagy and Giedion this was a four-dimensional transparency in which the boundaries between inside and outside, subject and object, were dissolved for an observer assumed to be moving freely in space and time. Enrique Limon argues that Emergent Transparency can be defined three dimensionally through “experience”. Limon suggests that the body experiences real time three-dimensional architectural space through the transverse of spatial entities no longer through perspective and or pictorial suggestions.
This rather complex argument is applied and worked through in various projects from Limon’s architectural Laboratory in New York City, which include a master plan for Seoul, Korea, a competition entry for Bodo, Norway, an auditorium building for a school in Kenya, both a loft and a retail component in NYC, and a chandelier.
More: www.limonlab.cam

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