Today, buildings are world’s largest polluting agent, accounting for around 40 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. While science, technology and regulatory frameworks develop at lightning speed, the design of buildings slowly evolves – even as the complexity of construction and performative requirements increases at an exponential rate. As we are painstakingly aware, there can be architecture without buildings but even more so there can be buildings with no architecture.
If the medium of architecture is building, then the project focuses on design experimentation arising from the negotiation and combination of emergent digital media and new material, design and production techniques, exploring volumetric, subtractive and projective geometries and stereotomy embracing thickness and novelty over surface and convention always challenging convention, tradition and a narrow definition of our profession.