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archetype .boo
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SHEET 02 / 05 · THE SPECIMEN WALL
SPECIMENS
Twelve typological specimens, catalogued on a 12×18 modular matrix. Each card occupies an integer number of cells. The rigidity is the point.
Bus Shelter — Type II
Hydrant — Stamped Cap
Meter — Coin Slot Specimen
Signal Totem — Tri-light
Tower — Spindly Legs
Civic Hall — Lattice Front
Medallion — Series I Mark
Bench — Civic-Park Type
Frieze — Three Primitives
Newsstand — Corner Lot
Compass — North-Arrow
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SHEET 03 / 05 · AN ESSAY ON ARCHETYPE
ATELIER
FOLIO · AN ESSAY
An archetype is a primitive — the fewest strokes that, taken together, name a thing. The circle, the triangle, the square: a vocabulary of three letters from which every composition descends.
In Dessau they taught the foundation course as a discipline of refusal. Strip the ornament. Strip the rhetoric. Begin with the ruled line, the compass arc, the chamfered corner. What remains after subtraction is the archetype, and the archetype is enough.
archetype.boo translates that pedagogy onto a municipal blueprint wall. The portfolio is not a gallery; it is a specimen catalogue. Each project is a typological entry, sized to integer cells, dated and stamped with a fake zoning code, captioned in Archivo Narrow eleven point, all caps.
The grid is visible because the grid is the work. The wordmark breathes thicker as you descend the page because the typography is variable on two axes and we choose to show it. The footer is a city block because the site is a building and the building stands on a street.
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SHEET 04 / 05 · CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE
i.
Drafting Office
14 Werkbund Strasse
Studio 03 / Floor B
Dessau-Roszlau, Saxony
ii.
Telephone
+49 0 340 65 08 250
Mon — Fri / 09:00 — 17:00 CET
iii.
Correspondence
atelier@archetype.boo
specimens@archetype.boo
municipal@archetype.boo
iv.
Form — Submit a Specimen
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SHEET 05 / 05 · PLAN-VIEW · CITY BLOCK
PLAN
Top-down plan-view of an imaginary block. Streets are nav links. Buildings are projects. You are here.