From House II designed by Eisenman, certain variables were altered to create a new system that unifies and individualizes the four structural elements that compose it (columns, slabs, partitions and beams). Through a linear graduation, a logic was initiated to detach these elements from the particular characteristics of House II.
The first degree, "Absolute Filling", creates a single system that contains the four elements. It excessively unifies its qualities to the point of indiscrimination.
The “Horizontal and Vertical Filling” creates two differentiated systems vertically (columns and partitions) and horizontally (slabs and beams). The slabs not only have their own characteristics but also take on those of the beams, becoming slab-beams, and the beams into beam-slabs. The same thing happens with columns and partitions.
The “Partial Breakthrough” identifies the four elements. Each fulfills individual functions complementing each other. That is, in certain variables they are independent, while in others they share values.
In the last degree "Absolute Breakdown", all the elements take on their own values, behaving independently. By maximizing their individual qualities, they completely lose their function, since they no longer complement each other.
This logic generates tensions between fillings and unfillings continuously. The organization, arrangement and volume of the elements are what define the character of each grade, giving them particular qualities.
These variables were intervened in order to assimilate the fillings, and thus create a house that reflects this graduation.Each element, in each variable, takes the value of one of the graduations. For every four elements, four fillings.
