Research on virtuosity and architecture.
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Essay on the use of raw materials in contemporary architecture.
The deliberate dichotomy between raw and manufactured materials is a demonstration of a wider cultural practice that seeks to achieve distinction through the contrast of opposing elements or ideas. Aesthetically, this plays out by resisting the complimentary, harmonious or balanced and seeking exception by means similar to ‘trolling’.
Publication forthcoming, trans 46: SPOLIA
Prototype for an open-purpose community space.
Unbuilt
Various locations
Timber, stone, concrete, metal
Prototype for a workstation.
Is contemporary labour so place-less, so ambivalent to setting that there is no longer needed a definition of workspace? Experience Desk considers the portability of work and the indistinguishable presence of both production and self-maintenance at the scale of the individual body.
Prototype
Various locations
Aluminium, nylon, LED
Proposal for an apartment refurbishment.
Unbuilt
London, UK
Aliquam tinci dapib
Proposal for a domestic amphitheatre interior.
Virtuosity compromises the possibility for a purely public or private experience. If one is always switched-on, always acting under the assumption of spectacle, what do we make of personal space? The domestic as a sphere for self-maintenance must also be recognised as a space for public relations.
Unbuilt
London, UK
Timber, carpet
Study of the contemoprary stage-less amphitheatre.
Today’s incarnation of the stage-less theatre is not only bound up in the casual economization of free time and public presence, but it also carries with it, by virtue of its very physical structure, immutable attributes of hierarchy and exclusion. The tiered seating form is specific. And its contemporary portrayal of publicness is made questionable by the earliest attempts to organize an audience.
Published in Pidgin 28, Fall 2020
Princeton School of Architecture