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As various academic concepts resurface in our minds, we find ourselves back in those classes that advocated for deconstruction and minimalism, back at the drafting table, reading Towards a New Architecture and Le Modulor late into the night.

I remember that the very first foundational course we took as architecture students began with sketching sliced fruits to understand the plan, elevation, and section of architecture. We regarded the fibrous textures and the arrangement of seeds inside the fruit as the smallest units of space and structure (unités d’habitation). The sliced fruit became part of a Modulor exercise, allowing us to search for rhythms of proportion within the parameters and order found in nature. The moment of cutting was an act of deconstruction, stripping the complete mass into measurable and re-readable sections.



  
                                         

               

Sliced Order 2025

In this series, the melon is arranged from a whole piece to four sequential slices, the peach from whole to halved, and the pomegranate from whole to revealing its interior—like a typology study in architectural models, a process of continuous disassembly, classification, observation, and comparison. The white porcelain freezes the fruit’s process of decay, allowing light and shadow to flow across its surfaces, much like the breath of light on exposed concrete in architecture.

The dense arrangement of seeds inside the melon resembles pilotis columns, the curves of the flesh become a natural plan libre, and the cuts act as fenêtre en longueur within nature, maintaining order while hinting at the moment of disruption. The subtle differences between each slice mirror topological deformation in architecture, where continuity holds space for slight variations and transformations.

This series rekindles our interest in structure and allows everyday objects, in the moment of being “sliced,” to become sections for structural analysis, spatial reading, and scale exploration—turning them into exercises in our ongoing dialogue with architecture.


                                                                                                       

Photographer: @mudai_li @haiyiiiii_

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