Fabrication Seminar – taught by Mara Marcu
“Sambó, an abbreviation for Shamballa used by the philosopher Mircea Eliade, is a metaphor for the “secret room,” referring to an utopian chamber essential in one’s terrestrial and spiritual life, a road for the spirits to cross over; only fully experienced in its thoroughness and beauty during childhood. As the child steps into adolescence her entrance into the sacred Sambó will one day be denied. The child cannot go back as she does not fit through and into the room anymore, just like clothes – once growing up – seem to shrink down. The research speculates on the typology of the Jeffersonian alcove bed, triple hung window, truncated pyramid skylight and octagonal porches; all embedded in a programmatic wall, as the basis for the mythically charged, paradoxical Jeffersonian Sambó.” – Mara Marcu
Sambo’ 1
Sambo’ Digrams
3D Print Study Model
Sambo’ 2
Sambo’ 3
Sambo’ 4
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