Buildings typically originate from a focus on broad concepts such as cultural, social, and economic factors. These factors often relegate the intricate details of a building to a secondary role, yet these very details imbue the building with its distinctive character.
The studio is interested in moving back and forth between these two scales: the scale of the building and the scale of the detail. This forms the core of the studio’s design philosophy, where we understand shifts in scale through the forensic analysis of everyday objects. These ordinary objects eventually become our springboard for shaping architectural ideas and expressions. The objects are analyzed, deconstructed and reassembled by making a series of scaleless 3D assemblages. In this transformative process, we defamiliarize the original objects while nurturing the relationships between their constituent parts, junctions, and joineries.
The unfolding of these new tectonics will be explored through novel digital tools. We will engage with AI techniques and procedural workflows thereby challenging traditional modes of design. The techniques extracted from these compositions serve as the guiding principle in the design of a contemporary place of work. We introduce these qualities at an architectural scale thereby influencing the site, structure and program of the building.
Studio Unit
Research and Ideation
Procedural modeling tools
Site Interventions
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.
