Fractal Projections

"In conjunction with the school’s 40th anniversary, the SCI-Arc Alumni Council sponsored a competition for the design, management, and construction of “40/40”—an installation of alumni work from 40 graduating classes, aspiring to honor over 4,000 alumni that have attended the school.

The winning entry, “Fractal Projection” by recent alums Evelina Sausina (B.Arch ’11) and Eugene Kosgoron (M.DesR ’12), was deemed by the council to be the most original, appropriate and responsive to the site. "The design was meant to re-connect the past and the present," says Kosgoron. "The past is imitated by a cube which represents the general assumption in the industry that expects us to build boxes, while the projected images, combined with the lighting effect, represent current trends at SCI-Arc.""

Excerpt taken from "Fractal Projections" Showcases [at] DTLA Artwalk

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Client: Southern California Institute of Architecture Alumni Committee Location: Down Town Los Angeles Art walk Exhibit at Farmers and Merchants Bank Design Architects: Eugene Kosgoron and Evelina Sausina Design Team: Bryant Suh, Sandra Cassou, Alex Dahm, Gonzalo Padilla, Wang Chia Min, Jose Sanchez, Monica Mader, Feng Chuchen, Jeff Morrical, Phil Olson, Sommayaeh Razamatti, Lilliana Castro, Oleg Korchinski, Cristina Toth, Ken On Do Structural Engineer: Stephen Lewis, Stan Su Lighting Designer: Dan Weinreber Photography: Michael Yates, Jansen Teo, Bryant Suh Description: Fractal Projections is a play on the idea of the cube broken in space to create an interlocking grid system that  follows a linear deformation, allowing them to break from the norm grid behavior into a family of fractal surfaces. Audience is meant to circulate the space to discover the projections that is composed from a series of smaller cubes that houses these fractal surfaces. Fractal Projections pays homage to architecture and how SCI-Arc Alumni’s have transformed the school over the 40 years. The concept is imitated by a cube, tribute to architecture and it’s primitive geometric beginnings.  Together, they create a highly animated effect, alternately shimmering with light or reflecting it as one walks throughout the space. The surfaces follow a linear deformation, where individual pieces are re-aligned to present multiple distorted views. The surfaces represent SCI-Arc individuals and their influence on architecture. Individually, these surfaces (Alumni’s) redefine the spatial idea of a cube. Together, they create a highly animated effect, alternately shimmering with light or reflecting as one walks throughout the space. Fractal Projections focus on creating multiple views of the cube in a spatial configuration that is tangible and yet evokes the ethereal.