Yingyi Mo (Mono)
Scaffolding: Medium, Mediator, Mediated
This thesis investigates, analyzes, and fictionalizes scaffolds, seeing scaffolds as a medium (that which is being neglected and unquestioned), a mediator (that which is actively executing shaping powers), and a to-be-mediated being (that which requires to be reimagined). Scaffolds in this thesis is registered as a polydimensional group of frameworks, tools, and agreements, ranging from scaffolds in the built environment, architectural drawing convention, CAD program interfaces and interaction modalities, and codes and scripts behind the digital programs. Together, these scaffolds simultaneously enable and prescribe architectural design processes. The project aims to make the scaffolds seen, de-familiarized, and rediscovered. The current outcome of the thesis consists of a collection of speculative, either representational or performative pieces, each being about a certain type of scaffold or certain aspects of a scaffold.
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Scaffolds as Frameworks
Wallpaper
19.5"*20" per module
2022
Fictional scaffolds and visual speculations on what do they enable and prescribe.
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Scaffolds as Frameworks
Wallpaper
39"*30"
2022
Fictional scaffolds and visual speculations on what do they enable and prescribe.
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Scaffolds as Frameworks
Paper
25"*25"
2022
Fictional scaffolds and visual speculations on what do they enable and prescribe.
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Scaffolds as Frameworks
Paper
25"*25"
2022
Fictional scaffolds and visual speculations on what do they enable and prescribe.
Tempos
Video
40"*20"
2022
Some scaffolds march smoothly. Some’s courses are punctuated with pauses. Some are discarded somewhere in the middle. Where are these scaffold located? What is being built with them? What happens after each timeline ends.
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Who?
Video
20"*20"
2022
Bodily experiences of six personas when climbing up a scaffold: what do they see? what do they want to see? how do they see?
Video file
Pneumatic Scaffolds
Video
20"*20"
2022
Scaffolds are apparently insignificant. They are built up with slender members. They are lightweight. They are physically flexible and adjustable to accommodate different topographical attributes. They perhaps want to be more so, to be even dynamic, amorphous, and transparent, to deal with the increasing density, construction frequency and complexity, and ever-changing demands in the built environment.
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Line Weights as Scaffolds
Interactive browser program
2022
Line weight is one of the scaffolds that make architectural drawings a communicative vehicle. Line weight is the scaffold through which information is encoded and decoded, information regarding materiality, proximity, significance, relevance, etc. Like most other scaffolds, line weights is also a scaffold that is agreed upon and has its convention.
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Interfaces and Interaction Modalities as Scaffolds
Interactive browser program
2022
This program features a dynamic interface, which makes the interaction with the program not only about modeling and drawing, but also about manipulating and controlling the interface itself.
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Code as Scaffolds
Wallpaper and digital wallpaper
20"*20"
2022
A visualization of the data structures of two modeling scripts.
- Architecture
- Ceramics
- Design Engineering
- Digital + Media
- Furniture Design
- Global Arts and Cultures
- Glass
- Graphic Design
- Industrial Design
- Interior Architecture
- Jewelry + Metalsmithing
- Landscape Architecture
- Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies
- Painting
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- TLAD
- Textiles
