FAMILIAR MATTER,
STRANGE ASSEMBLY
2021
RMIT University Master of Architecture, Major Project, 2021
Supervised by: Dr Graham Crist
FAMILIAR MATTER, STRANGE ASSEMBLY is a collection of material and spatial design experiments, developed through an exploration of re-contextualising found material as architectural matter.
Methods explored within these design experiments have been inspired by the sculptural gesture of re-assembling found material to produce new form.
The process considers unwanted building material as found material and underutilised architecture as found space. Focusing on the reuse of found materials, sourced from local marketplace and demolition sites, the work encourages a reinterpretation of the familiar to produce an architecture that is strange and experimental but resourceful.
Initial experiments are based on the abstraction and re-assembly of a pink pedestal basin, a somewhat familiar domestic object. This process inspires further investigations with an expanded catalogue of found material.
Simplified elements of architecture are combined to generate unusual architectural assemblies, within the bounds of an individual car park space. Individual elements within these modules are fabricated from strange assemblies of found material. When combined, these form textured and layered compositions that begin to challenge architectural convention.
These experimental outcomes are tested in the context of James Birrell’s Wickham Terrace car park, to form a proposition for its future reoccupation.
STRANGE ASSEMBLY
2021
RMIT University Master of Architecture, Major Project, 2021
Supervised by: Dr Graham Crist
FAMILIAR MATTER, STRANGE ASSEMBLY is a collection of material and spatial design experiments, developed through an exploration of re-contextualising found material as architectural matter.
Methods explored within these design experiments have been inspired by the sculptural gesture of re-assembling found material to produce new form.
The process considers unwanted building material as found material and underutilised architecture as found space. Focusing on the reuse of found materials, sourced from local marketplace and demolition sites, the work encourages a reinterpretation of the familiar to produce an architecture that is strange and experimental but resourceful.
Initial experiments are based on the abstraction and re-assembly of a pink pedestal basin, a somewhat familiar domestic object. This process inspires further investigations with an expanded catalogue of found material.
Simplified elements of architecture are combined to generate unusual architectural assemblies, within the bounds of an individual car park space. Individual elements within these modules are fabricated from strange assemblies of found material. When combined, these form textured and layered compositions that begin to challenge architectural convention.
These experimental outcomes are tested in the context of James Birrell’s Wickham Terrace car park, to form a proposition for its future reoccupation.
