Objects to Worlds

Generally, buildings are designed and developed by thinking about big ideas context, social and cultural issues, and massing. While all perfectly reasonable places to begin, these starting points relegate the details, which are often essential to their ultimate outcome, to play a more subservient role in the process. Our studio was interested in moving back and forth between these two radically different scales of thinking, one being the scale of the building and the second being a smaller scale detail. The studio developed an inside out approach towards design by questioning the part to whole relationship between objects, structure, envelope and site. The studio aimed to disrupt our conventional relationship with architectural compositions and to rethink the correlations between familiar objects and their assemblies.