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Matthias Ballestrem & Marta Fernandez Guardado

Berlin, Germany
Matthias is professor for architecture and experimental design at HCU Hamburg, co-leading its Architecture Research Initiative, and co-founder of the practice-based PhD program „Programm Entwurfsbasierte Forschung“ (PEP) at TU Berlin and active member of its supervisor's group. Marta is an architect working on design, research and teaching, design professor assistant at ETH Zürich and design-based research doctor candidate at HCU Hamburg.

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LORZA


A 'lorza' is fold made into a garment for shortening or as an ornament, and colloquially, a fold of fat that forms somewhere on the body, especially at the waist.

LORZA


A 'lorza' is fold made into a garment for shortening or as an ornament, and colloquially, a fold of fat that forms somewhere on the body, especially at the waist.
Spatial installation, associative texts and stories that investigate the shrinking future of the universal notion of home as a personal space of intimacy and care
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  • Systemic changes

In times of densification, walls are coming closer, bodies are approaching each other. The tiny house is reduced to the essential space that can house the human body. But how can home become more than a container? How can it become a body itself? A (some)body that is there to protect and give comfort? Through associative texts, collection of stories and a spatial installation, the project investigates how space can be perceived in close relation to the body, and how the architecture itself becomes skin-like in a phenomenal way.

With the densification of the city that will raise the level of social stress, walls could become an intimate of our body.

We daily apply things to our bodies –clothes, jewelry, makeup– and interact intimately with things –coffee mill, bike, bed– but we hardly think about architecture in that way.

An architecture that is minimal, yet personal, a character rather than an object. Something slow that is lasting and that we can come back to.

Blurring used domestic textiles and minimal space, we propose a sensual reading of the space that we call home –related to memory, time, touch, people and things.

The project was developed by Marta Fernandez and Matthias Ballestrem for WORKS+WORDS 2019 Biennale for Artistic Research in Architecture, KADK The Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen, photographed by Søren Svendsen.

LORZA


A 'lorza' is fold made into a garment for shortening or as an ornament, and colloquially, a fold of fat that forms somewhere on the body, especially at the waist.

LORZA


A 'lorza' is fold made into a garment for shortening or as an ornament, and colloquially, a fold of fat that forms somewhere on the body, especially at the waist.
Spatial installation, associative texts and stories that investigate the shrinking future of the universal notion of home as a personal space of intimacy and care
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

In times of densification, walls are coming closer, bodies are approaching each other. The tiny house is reduced to the essential space that can house the human body. But how can home become more than a container? How can it become a body itself? A (some)body that is there to protect and give comfort? Through associative texts, collection of stories and a spatial installation, the project investigates how space can be perceived in close relation to the body, and how the architecture itself becomes skin-like in a phenomenal way.

With the densification of the city that will raise the level of social stress, walls could become an intimate of our body.

We daily apply things to our bodies –clothes, jewelry, makeup– and interact intimately with things –coffee mill, bike, bed– but we hardly think about architecture in that way.

An architecture that is minimal, yet personal, a character rather than an object. Something slow that is lasting and that we can come back to.

Blurring used domestic textiles and minimal space, we propose a sensual reading of the space that we call home –related to memory, time, touch, people and things.

The project was developed by Marta Fernandez and Matthias Ballestrem for WORKS+WORDS 2019 Biennale for Artistic Research in Architecture, KADK The Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen, photographed by Søren Svendsen.

Idea by

Matthias Ballestrem & Marta Fernandez Guardado
Berlin
Germany
Matthias is professor for architecture and experimental design at HCU Hamburg, co-leading its Architecture Research Initiative, and co-founder of the practice-based PhD program „Programm Entwurfsbasierte Forschung“ (PEP) at TU Berlin and active member of its supervisor's group. Marta is an architect working on design, research and teaching, design professor assistant at ETH Zürich and design-based research doctor candidate at HCU Hamburg.
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