Building Buildings

This workshop is meant to be an experience of construction, an act of building. Through the making of 1:10 plasterboard models, we speculate on a series of spaces and a possible language for an architecture. The subject will be spaces for working, organized over 5 floors.

Act 1

A design intention is articulated through simple drawings in plan and elevation, an iterative process of translating key spatial qualities from two selected reference buildings. Intuition and a careful reading of the image seems key.

Act 2

Translation from drawing to model. We explore the material aspects of plasterboard and develop a tectonic of construction details and assemblage to set principle for an architecture. The model of a building. Rough and specific at the same time.

Act 3

A plinth adds the final element to this model to produce an ambiguous piece. The plinth can be seen as a found object or piece of architecture. It stages the model in the actual space while it sets a context for the proposed architecture. A piece somewhere between architecture, furniture and prop.