Misbehaving Architecture
plaster and glass casts
MA Royal College of Art, Architecture
ADS6
2018-2019
How can we disrupt the mundane materiality of standardised architecture? The aim of the project is to develop a more humane quality to material gestures, making the value of tectonic language to be defined in terms of an awareness through our senses. The project focuses on material construction through various studies in plaster and fabric, ceramic and glass slumping techniques.
Instead of controlling every aspect of the building design, an appreciation to human error and natural material behaviour should be involved in the building process.
Through ‘erroneous’ material studies that perform through human action and intervention, such as the 1:1 wall study where performers leaned, pushed and hugged the wall as it cured, the inhabitants of the space become part of the architectural language. By adding more nuanced behaviour into the material detail of construction, perhaps the methods of space use can also alter. Programming space through actions rather than objective potentially translates our appreciation and inhabitation of space as users and occupiers.
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Misbehaving Architecture
plaster and glass casts
MA Royal College of Art, Architecture
ADS6
2018-2019
How can we disrupt the mundane materiality of standardised architecture? The aim of the project is to develop a more humane quality to material gestures, making the value of tectonic language to be defined in terms of an awareness through our senses. The project focuses on material construction through various studies in plaster and fabric, ceramic and glass slumping techniques. Instead of controlling every aspect of the building design, an appreciation to human error and natural material behaviour should be involved in the building process.
Through ‘erroneous’ material studies that perform through human action and intervention, such as the 1:1 wall study where performers leaned, pushed and hugged the wall as it cured, the inhabitants of the space become part of the architectural language. By adding more nuanced behaviour into the material detail of construction, perhaps the methods of space use can also alter. Programming space through actions rather than objective potentially translates our appreciation and inhabitation of space as users and occupiers.
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