Unideal Villa

shinkenchiku residential design competition (2002?). the text reads:

Unideal Villa

Give me ground to stand on and I will move the world.
-Archimedes

In the presence of your eyes only the inhabitants of the Unideal Villa have slipped from Logos , running free as one could in Hades. Such as it is in Utopia, one must willfully struggle from the good, wise and happy; quite the opposite from our world where eudaimonia is far from reach.

Like the Ideal Villa, here geometry regulates. This geometrric regulation is logos itself - the laying that gathers. Unlike the Ideal Villa, what is gathered is sensable, not an ideal object edified. Collage rewrites the idea of laying that gathers. What is gathered is not what can first be said, know, or even imagined. Collage is a machine for imagination, a mechanized imagination. It is a machine for slipping from structure, from language.

Reconfigure the world and you will have the world of man. I call this world Irreal.

These drawings are a beginning of play and imagination on these ideas. The end is nowhere in sight.

Exterminate all rationality.
-W.S.Burroughs

references to logos/the laying that gathers from Heidegger's analysis of Anaximander in 'Early Greek Thinking'.