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The Irving Place apartment
continues a series of spatial experiments begun in other
apartments. Located at 17th Street and Irving Place,
Manhattan, in a prewar rental apartment building, the
apartment is about 375 square feet, has a living room,
kitchen alcove and bedroom, 10’- ceilings, and
picture rail and heavy door moldings. Using the computer, the painting is folded into a box and translated to the apartment walls in four colors. This allows a reinterpretation of the apartment volume. With allusions to van Doesburg’s Cafe d’Aubette and Lizzitsky’s Proun Room, the painted planes start to structure and define their own independent logic of space. The full box fills the perimeter of the apartment while the residual portions of the net act as planes set into the box. The picture rail acts as a datum for the ceiling plane. A reading of a box with inserted planes is clear, looking through the doorway from the bedroom to the living room. Modeling the design on the computer establishes an experiential feedback loop between the real and the virtual. |