While it’s been debated that God is in the details, for anyone concerned with the impact of the built environment, and its role in shapig human experience, one should keep in mind the equally
common phrase, The devil is in the details.
Our studio was interested in moving back and forth between these two radically different scales of thinking, one being the scale of the building and the second being a smaller scale detail. Buildings are designed and developed by thinking about big ideas context, social and cultural issues, and massing. While reasonable places to start, these relegate the details to playing a more subservient role in the process. The studio aimed to develop an insideoutapproach which questions this part to whole relationship between
objects, structure, envelope and site. The studio aimed to disrupt our conventional relationship with architectural compositions and rethink the correlations between objects and their assemblies.
Studio Unit
The studio develops narratives through a curatorial approach and set creation, to form architectural narratives about the nature of the workspace and the objects that lie within.
The studio engages in cyclical feedback between making, drawing and modeling; constantly moving in between analog and digital mediums. Transitioning between these two realms will allow students to be opportunistic with the advantages each tool holds, and offer opportunities for novel translations of the project at various stages.
Students formulate speculative chunk models; mesh-based techniques are integrated with traditional orthographic modeling. A strong emphasis is placed on representations through light, material, colour and pattern.
From Objects to Architecture : Students are encouraged to formulate a personalized workflow and aesthetic, with a strong emphasis on graphical representations and critical design enquiry.
Models are fine tuned to adhere to program specifics, context, material and graphics without diluting the aesthetic and formal attitude of the preliminary design investigations.
