DESIGN PROPOSAL
Construction - Focused around plan, the initial construction explores the Gestalt principle of closure by arranging the seven distant elements to form several rectangles, which rotate clockwise about the axial intersection at the origin and offer a counter-origin. The physical model extends the principle of closure in three-dimensions, creating a layered, unified composition which extends the depth of the artifact and reaffirms its nine-square organizational logic. A similarity of structure between the vertical elements further unifies the whole while again drawing concentration to the origin.
Transformation - The transformed artifact maintains the folded plane spatial boundary and the dual axes of its predecessor, but utilizes shear, stretch, and translation to establish a centripetal relationship to the contents of the implied nine-inch cubic volume. Counter to this, the primary origin and counterpoint origin function centrifugally, breaking said boundaries to extend in each orientation. While deploying transformations in both plan and section, the artifact further explores principles of proportion and hierarchy to yield a comprehensive whole.
Defamiliarization - The defamiliarized assembly maintains the position of the origin and counterpoint origin, while subverting the role of the primary axes in relation to the human body and its inward and outward observation. The once-material origin axes appropriate three continuous linear spatial volumes, which intersect at the origin and incise one another in relation to the registration of human scale. In turn, the primary origin becomes a transparent but culminating inner void in the assembly. Extended sightlines in all cardinal axes are maintained for observation beyond as the linear volumes incise the multi-folded planar boundaries, subverting them for their previous solidity and mass. The counter origin remains a point with incomplete axes as with previous states, but decouples from its original position to exist in both plan and section as a transparent axial element which serves to rigidify the two now-thinned spatial boundary elements.