General Manifold是一个沉浸式的建筑环境，安装在密歇根州切尔西市废弃的Federal Screw Works工厂综合体中。这个装置是由建筑合作伙伴Spatial Ops和密歇根大学Meta Friche研究研讨会的学生共同组织的集体展览的核心。
General Manifold对前工业遗址的颓废背景做出了反应，为活动提供了一个令人惊讶和引人注目的时刻。一个神秘的品红色虚空从工厂中心工作区的坚实部分中被雕刻出来，形成了一个几何复杂、色彩对比和光学扭曲的空间。在截锥体上一系列精确的切割产生了透视反转的效果，使参观者质疑这个异常环境的深度、尺寸和规模。
在General Manifold内部，参观者会遇到一个由Brandie Moses演绎的包含空间定位和节奏错落的工业声音叠加在18世纪和19世纪重要废墟文本（如约翰·拉斯金、维奥莱·勒·杜克、贝尔纳丁·德·圣皮埃尔和丹尼斯·迪德罗）的朗读声景中的6声道声音景观。
在体验内部并探索工厂的其他区域后，参观者被引导到插入亭的外部，并得以看到空间被里外颠倒的情景，这是一个意想不到的机会，可以体验poche（原文中提到的空间转向内部的现象）。
该项目得到密歇根大学陶布曼建筑与城市规划学院和学习与教学研究中心以及Magellan Properties的支持。
展览文本如下：
废墟
当 代对衰败表现的迷恋经常被贬低为“废墟色情”，这个绰号旨在明确其存在剥削和场景化抽象的特征。在集体视角中，在迷恋和哀思、无处不在和宏伟、参与和疏离、存在和解体的状态之间摇摆，废墟已经重新浮现为象征性占有、幻影探索、物质争论和制造的欲望地点。
欢迎来到Federal Screw Works。
Federal Screw是一个提出了一种替代方式来阅读废墟色情的装置。自我反思地培养对废墟的热情是否能帮助支持其转型；多元化地重新想象废墟是否能帮助关心的利益攸关者推测废弃场地的替代未来？考虑到这些问题，Federal Screw举办了一个事件和集体探索，这是切尔西共同体即将推出的总体规划的第一步。
关于Federal Screw
切尔西螺丝工程公司成立于1913年，1928年并入Federal Screw Works。这家位于切尔西的80000平方英尺的工厂曾经雇佣了250多人。在2005年关闭时，只剩下37名员工。
结局
Federal Screw Works综合体计划拆除。General Manifold装置将一直留在现场，直到建筑物与插入部分一起被夷平。
项目：General Manifold
阶段：已完成
城市：切尔西
类型：装置
规模：700平方英尺插入到80000平方英尺
年份：2012年
合作者：Jean Louis Farges, Anya Sirota
演员：Brandie Moses (声音)
团队：Melissa Bonfil, Virginia Black, Peyton Coles, Joey Filippelli, Brittany Gacsy, Chris Reznich, Michael Sanderson, Jeeeun Ham, Jennifer Komorowoski, Kyung Jin Hong, Jordan Johnson, Brian Muscat, Ash Thomas, Catherine Truong
支持：Bruce Findling, Nathan Doud, James Chestnut, Jason Stock
照片来源：彼得·史密斯摄影和史蒂文·克里斯滕森
标签：建筑，装置，回收，声景
GENERAL MANIFOLD
General Manifold is an immersive architectural environment installed in the abandoned Federal Screw Works factory complex in Chelsea, Michigan. This installation was the centerpiece of a collective exhibition organized by the architectural collaborative Spatial Ops and students from our Meta Friche research seminar at the University of Michigan.
General Manifold reacts to the derelict context of the former industrial site, providing a moment of surprise and punctuation to the event. A mysterious magenta void is carved from the perceived solid of the factory’s central work area, generating a space of geometric complexity, chromatic contrast, and optical distortion. A series of precise cuts in the truncated pyramids produces an effect of perspectival inversion, causing the visitor to question the depth, dimension, and scale of this aberrant environment.
Inside General Manifold, the visitor encounters a 6-channel soundscape consisting of spatially localized and syncopated industrial sounds layered over readings of seminal ruin texts from the 18th and 19th centuries (by John Ruskin, Viollet le Duc, Bernadin de St. Pierre, and Denis Diderot), performed by Brandie Moses.
After experiencing the interior and exploring the other areas of the factory, the visitor is guided to the exterior of the inserted pavilion and allowed to see the space turned inside-out, an unanticipated opportunity to inhabit the poché.
The project was produced with support from Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, along with Magellan Properties.
Following is the exhibition text:
RUIN
The contemporary fascination with representations of decay is frequently denigrated as ruin porn, a moniker meant to render explicit a character of exploitation and scenographic abstraction. In the collective optic, oscillating between fetishism and lament, ubiquity and monumentality, engagement and distanciation, a state of being and coming undone, the ruin has resurfaced as a site of symbolic appropriation, chimerical exploration, material contestation, and fabricated desire. Welcome to Federal Screw Works.
Federal Screw is an installation that proposes an alternative way to read ruin porn. Can the self-reflexive cultivation of enthusiasm for the ruin help build support for its transformation; can the pluralistic reimaging of ruin help concerned constituents speculate about alternative futures for a derelict site? In consideration of these questions, Federal Screw stages an event and collective exploration, a first step in a forthcoming master plan for Chelsea Common.
ABOUT FEDERAL SCREW
The Chelsea Screw Works was founded in 1913, and merged into Federal Screw Works in 1928. The 80,000 square foot Chelsea plant once employed more than 250 people. At the time of its closing in 2005, only 37 employees remained.
GRAND FINALE
The Federal Screw Works complex is slated for demolition. The General Manifold installation will remain on site until the building is razed along with the insertion.
PROJECT: General Manifold
PHASE: Completed
CITY: Chelsea
TYPE: Installation
SCALE: 700 sf inserted into 80,000 sf
YEAR: 2012
COLLABORATORS: Jean Louis Farges, Anya Sirota
CAST: Brandie Moses (Voice)
TEAM: Melissa Bonfil, Virginia Black, Peyton Coles, Joey Filippelli, Brittany Gacsy, Chris Reznich, Michael Sanderson, Jeeeun Ham, Jennifer Komorowoski, Kyung Jin Hong, Jordan Johnson, Brian Muscat, Ash Thomas, Catherine Truong
REINFORCEMENT: Bruce Findling, Nathan Doud, James Chestnut, Jason Stock
PHOTO CREDITS: Peter Smith Photography and Steven Christensen
TAGS: Architecture, Installation, Reclamation, Soundscape
