MOS Architects

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Systems and Shapes: The argument goes that Form is a System and Shapes are, well, shapes. The two are disciplinary fr-enemies  they act like friends from time to time, part of the same clique, but in private they trash each other.  Systems people are pedantic technicians, neurotic puppet masters of geometry. They obsess over means. They talk too much about process. They claim to like Schoenberg. Whereas, the Shape people describe themselves as cool, easy, and graphic.  They are interested in an immediacy of effects. They live in Williamsburg. Systems are typically plan based. Shapes are elevations, or silhouettes. Systems are conceptual. Shapes are commercial. Systems like repetition and difference. They use patterns, trajectories, and magnitudes. Shapes prefer singularity, they use fillets to round corners and reinforce the shape. Systems are centrifugal. Shapes are centripetal. Systems get excited by the allure of computation. They play with Catia, Processing or Grasshopper, mumbling intensely about discretizing surfaces. Shapes prefer Photoshop and Illustrator. They use pens. Systems frustrate pictorial imagery, through their emphasis on process. They gaze at their feet. Shapes relish the pictorial. They swoon for photos. Systems produce their own ground. Shapes don’t like anything that disrupts their shape.
This little house in the middle of nowhere, it is indifferent to all of the above.
 

Much of our recent work involves us traveling long distances and imagining new generic typologies, something repeatable into an informal agglomeration. This house is made of a T tower shape; it echoes the ruins of old medieval stone towers scattered in the landscape. We photographed a few of them while driving to the site.  The towers are solar chimneys. Each T is basically a single concrete room with large windows that look into the surrounding olive grove, except for the T that tipped over, that has two bedrooms.  SOLO HOUSES