Our submission for beyond environment focuses on deep
space-making, rather than assemblage or craft to create a
total environment. Inspired by the collaboration between
Gianni Pettena & Smithson, we are interested in form and
formless, or the landscape and the mass.
From the material standpoint we are interested in the
relationship between two profoundly simple architectural
and engineering paradigms: the thoughtful detail and (for
lack of a better term) the moment of elasticity. What this
roughly means is employing tactical design devices (such as
the foam) to be bounded, moderated, or parameterized, in
the non-parametric sense, by moments of control (form
work, breakage walls) – paired with moments of seepage or
unpredictability. We do this because we are interested in
weirdness.
Coming out of an architectural period obsessed with e ect,
surface, assemblage and willful dominance over material
through fabrication, we are interested in exploring this
‘deep space’ in that we like the ability for our foam to have
resonant meaning in it’s ability to absorb and be Borromini
(San Carlo) with a twist of Turrell (Roden Crater), Hejduk
(because always Hejduk) with a dash of Acconci (Walkways
Through the Wall).
Our goal is to create a series of intentional forms with a
formwork, disseminate this outrageous and catalytic foam
throughout the space to ultimately end up with moments of
bleed, landscape and formlessness.
