Architecture + Other Things

- Friday 18 March, 2016 10:00PM

VENUE

Booth G34, Design Days Dubai

Almost Natural Shelter

Almost Natural Shelter explores the production of space and its aesthetics in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is a new geological era that has emerged out of the unprecedented influence of the human race on the planet’s ecology. The motivation behind Almost Natural Shelter is to uncover the relevant spatial conditions that address this new geological era. Specifically, the project aims to explore an alternative and nebulous relationship between natural and synthetic things.

In order to achieve a blurring between the natural and the synthetic, Almost Natural Shelter critiques a pervasive tendency in contemporary architecture that has been made more apparent with the proliferation of contemporary digital fabrication techniques, namely the pursuit of ultimate and slow precision through the privileging of archaic part-to-whole relationships.

This rejection of part-to-while relationships has allowed the project to privilege deep textural formations through the integration of messy computational design methodologies and chemically volatile non-linear fabrication. In specifically, the chemical volatility of the material, High Density Foam, is allowed to self-compute to uncover an Almost Natural Shelter.