sci-arc graduate thesis
Chia-ching Yang
Advisor: Elena Manferdini

This thesis is using familiarity us a vehicle and bring unfamiliarity into architecture. This technique has been usually using in art. In this thesis, it will apply on architecture scale. There are four techniques inspired from art works. Taking the techniques form Anish Kapoor's Spire , Daniel Lee's "manimal ", Berlinde De Bruyckere's Marthe, and Jeff koons's Balloon dog brought out Projection, Becoming, Synthesis and Being those terms to apply onto arches, The site is in Paris. Those triumphal arches are monumential sculptures in the city. The familiarity creates the connection between viewers and the city to introduce the unfamiliarity into the project.