An exploration of vernacular architectural forms and combinatorial logics. If the roof form is typically what gives a building its character (i.e., its primary reading in a public-facing elevation), we can play with those proportions to achieve a particular reading. Square proportions become domestic, while shallower gables suggest more industrial typologies, narrower ones may even feel religious. Mixing a variety of proportions together allow for a proto-urban cacophony of elevational readings. These generative compositions play with both existing perceptions of the built environment as well as imaginary potentials of future architectures to come.

As impossible as these compositions may seem, they are fully realized as 3D forms, extruded at various lengths, all connected to a fictional “ground”. They are rendered using an elevation oblique projection, a form of parallel projection that visually distorts the geometry to show accurate depth and a true frontal elevation.

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