Not Quite: Around Form and Environment
DESIGN STUDIO CO-TAUGHT W/ LESLIE LOK - SPRING 2021
The studio investigated worlds bounded by enclosures at various scales, with an emphasis on exploring legible relationships between beings and their environments. Skin is considered as a fundamental constructed interface between worlds, as a threshold, and as responsive. Form is considered to be malleable, soft, and adaptable. Together skins and forms define enclosures that have interiors and exteriors; with thickness and porosity. They are systems that address complexly intertwined programmatic and functional relationships. Tectonic organizations give structure to skin and form. Exploring how defined enclosures both materialize architecturally and adapt to varying environments, we investigated their potential for a re-organization of program, circulation, structure, social relationships, and spaces of inhabitation.