This was an undergraduate student project by Cody Davis for Gabriel Esquivel's ARCH 443 course, Spring 2005. The project concentrates on the different ways that space is traditionally viewed; from a formalism, to indexicality and then the potential of textuality as a new digital organization of repetition, to understand the anxiety regarding the shape of space and the role of surface and its performance. Materiality and ornament are explored in the actualization of the hotel. Development of a material system, employing strategies of modulation, recombination and affects of deformation are combined with an investigation of the traditional French hotel. Searching for irregularities within the typological organization, highlighting specific texts within the index derives an operation that is interpreted as a technique that can be repeated within the hotel reconnecting the specific affected indexes. The textuality emerges by the repetition of the operation, rewriting the hotel, thus resulting in a new morphological condition, possibilities of inhabitation and integration of technologies in design, fabrication and use. -- Cody Davis. This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present. The effort to preserve and digitize drawings in the Student Archives was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation. Keywords: student work, digital models, 3D models.
