SHEARWALL
REQUEST: ENTITY=SHEARWALL, SYMMETRY=ASYMMETRIC, DENSITY=MONOLITH, FOCUS=ARCHITECTURAL
ANALYSIS:
SHEARWALL — a structural wall, sliced on a diagonal as if by force or collapse.
ARCHITECTURAL — massive, reminiscent of brutalist or constructivist concrete forms.
ASYMMETRIC — weight is shifted, one side heavy, the other relieved.
MONOLITH — a single slab, interrupted only by purposeful voids.
SYNTHESIS:
The form is a heavy rectangular mass, its top edge cut at a slant, producing the impression of a wall sheared under load.
The monolithic solidity remains, but geometric purity is disrupted.
Inside is a clean rectangular void, functioning as an aperture or structural recess.