Accretion Theatre | Fictional Soup

(fig. A1) Accretion Theatre | A Nascent Sketch

(fig. A2) Accretion Theatre | Development Sketch

Citations for the sake of literary fictions¹ allow my design process a respite. While forms, shapes and spaces categorize and re-organize (themselves) into a cortex of visual diagrams, the outputs begin as a nascent diagram available for follow-up. 

Dizzying concoctions of non-standard architectural variables. Completely un-scripted  plump pumpkins, stems of dried-up roses - replete with thorny brigades connect hollowed-out and obviously dom.in.oed frame structures. Absence of scale, this is true, the form making has some kind of literary origin.

Without a doubt, these references allow for the open minded exchange between the literary authors and the visual erudition of architecture highest regard. A page of text within Thomas Mann's epic tome featuring a young man searching for ideas inside a Swiss restorative sanitarium in the Alps is the baseline for the medium. Eternal Soups, here redefined as Fictional Soup, is a forerunner to the Accretion Theatre. As in each room or sanitarium patient the young protagonist discovers a new set of ideas and fodder for ruminations to bring him out of the German Bourgeoise background he was born into. With a little bit of analog, these sketches are on their way, certainly in early process, but I'm trying to free my own constraints from the aesthetics of digital constructions, on the way to complete reciprocity between the two. A personal narrative for sure.

Image & Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva @ Experimental Processes Studio.  
Footnotes: A pen and ink sketch on the page of The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann