Animal House - MANMOTH
Deep Humid Forest
Fall, 2018
UC Berkeley
Instructor: Eleanor Pries
Design a house - a house that emerges from a manifesto that suggests the house, as an architectural typology, while having its origins in many different environments, also has its origins in humankind’s understanding of a particular plant or animal.
An ideogram is created with the selected animal, a patent drawing, a model image, and a drawing from a previous project. A narrative for client and environment is also developed based on the diagram. Plan and sections of the house are interpreted from the ideogram.
A man and a moth. They live in the deep forest, the man is a chef who cooks stew with moth dandruff. This is a secret ingredient he found and he is going to keep it with him to his grave. Their lonely house in the forest thus has half of it as the kitchen. Next door is the moth’s bedroom. the moth is in love with a star. In order to keep the moth with him, the chef made a telescope for the moth. the moth will not go to sleep before saying good morning to the star.
However, the chef knows the love between his only dandruff provider and the star is unreal and non-reproductive, he starts to do the research to find moths with the same dandruff... what the chef doesn’t know is that only moth in an unrealistic relationship with the star can produce the most delicious dandruff.
