Portfolio 2016 Patricio Nusselder
Career: 2016 Design Academy Eindoven Bachelor Department Public - Private 2015 PolyU University of Hong Kong Research program between PolyU and DAE 2014 Royal Danish Academy of Art Master Spatial Design: Perception and Detail Participatory semester 2012 Atheneum College Hageveld N&T - N&G
Architecture of Assemblage I am interested in designing with free gestures. To express elements like time, vulnerability and movement. In my work I tend to use the properties of the material as an expressive language. Recolection - reconnection - assemblage
Skills Most of my design work happens through detailed paper modelmaking and intuitive contact with material. The most exciting part of a project happens in the translation from concept to material. I am also familiar with all relevant digital rendering tools.
Scales I work in the field of architecture. As a designer, I will apply the concept through the details. Material and athmosphere are of key importance.
Explorative samples
An Assemblage in Four Colours An exercise into the describtive qualities of materials; into how materials contain worlds of references within themselves. On a table I confronted Signal Red, Antagonist Black, Vulnerable Blue and Elderly Green and created relations between them. I observed how the combination of these 4 colours created a diverse range of athmospheres on a vast array of scales. Through the combination of materials a poetry and a story was revealed. I gathered this information as a starting point for further work. This project was part of “Working with the Grid� minor.
In this book I gathered assimilations: from colour to material to a world, This world was later expressed on the table.
A Living Lamp Because of its immateriality, light is mostly treated as a divine, mystic element or in a pragmatic functional way. But for me light is warm, approachable and cozy. This project was a material and shape experiment to look at how light can physically come closer to you and becoming a cushion or a little monster. On this page: the explorative model. On the next page: the product, a LED lightbulb with silicon replaceable cover.
Pipi’s treasure Pipi is a thing-finder. She walkes throught the forest and the streets and grabs everything she finds interisting. For her the value of an object is the story she can invent with it, not its material value. I found this fascinating. In this project I became Pipi. On this spread: the museum piece (left) and the final shape model On the next spread: 1:1 shape experiment.
the wind throught the statue
A Thin Architecture A simple structure. Through its length it gets movement, becomes flexible. A natural effect. Like tall grass. To translate into structure means to get maximum length of steel strips without bending, to remain vulnerable to touch but not get out of balance. Steel strips need a weight base to remain vertical. I decided it to become seating. The steel grass is a backrest. When leaning on it it is soft, and responds by wobling, becoming alive and causes lightplay inside. A reflective surface strengthens the lightplay. A small fountain i referes to the liquid lightplay. A lightblue floor lightens athosphere, connects water with light.
Ode to Street Life In Hong Kong the public space is used in a lot of different ways over the course of a day; what in the morning is a fruit market later might become a future telling market, after that a improvised karaoke street and finally a homeless sleeping spot. By mapping and layering all these functionalities I created constelations of different events, that as a theater set can be rolled down when a certain activity is going to take place. In this way, the events are the architecture. On this spread: Same picture taken 12 hours later, starting point of the project (left) and “Street party� concept model. On the next spread: 1:20 model and shape discovery through mapping constelations of furniture.
on scale 1:100
The Ruin Tonder is a small village in the south of Denmark. It is depopulating. I think there is something beautiful about this town dissapearing and beeing able to become something completely different, like a forest or the sea. In the center of the town I created a square. It is made to become a ruin. While people live here it is a park, an intimate meeting point. As people leave grass will grow taller from between the tiles and eventually this place will be the startingpoint of the reconquest of the town by nature. The ruin as a place.
Light Living Philosophy What you posses says a lot about who you are. We approach the era of the sharing economy, a time in which possessions become less and less important. So what does this mean for our identity? This research got us insights into ways of living without possesions and what it means for people to posses things. We gathered the knowledge in a book and designed and curated a exhibition. On this page: the research book. On the next page: one of the pictures made for the exhibition.
Postcards from Hong Kong Postcards tend to show the cities most beautifull views. Or not. While I was in Hong Kong, once a week I visited the spot from where the picture for a postcard was taken. A way to compare the rendered world of tourism and reality.