Educational work
Project: Plexicon
Program: Material Research
Location: Montréal, Canada
Team: Mikkel Bøgh
Advisers: Manon Asselin,Katsuhiro Yamazaki & Howard Davies
Year: 2007
The point of departure for the studio is an open-ended exploration (play) in the physical quality of materials and their ability to impact the way architectural space is created and experienced. Although this studio provides a forum to re-examine issues of tectonics in architecture it is concerned primarily with the phenomenological relationship of material to space in an attempt to explore freely the possibility to re-define a material presence for architecture that is neither nostalgic about craft-based tectonics nor redemptive of technology. The issue of the “mutability” of materials and their technologies is at the core of this first exercise, the creative possibilities open to architects to render stone transparent, to make material immaterial.
