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The project seeks to explore relational performances and interactions between invented architectural characters within the programmatic charge of a hairdressers, sited within a Brussels arcade. The characters are assembled under a series of mundane alibis, and their individual mannerisms are present as both drawing tools and machined pieces. The choreography of these performative items is played out in parallel between a physical test model – that is both propositional and prototypical – and an assembly of LiDAR scans of the site and model parts, which exist in both their digital depiction and by capturing the building’s enactment through drawings. These methods reveal common formal characteristics that are played out through their varied application(s) – in both project and building – revealing the seams and interstice of their encounters. Thus, the work examines how – through programmatic skews, distortions, and situational repositioning – the characters can be reinterpreted and understood within their new contexts. From this, not only does a dialogue emerge between these architectural characters, but also relational properties and associations between the means of practice.
Collating the proposition’s digital information, the studies are the originators of the relational architectural information. From this, come the drawings and made items. The digital studies are therefore prototypical
Towards a drawing method concerning printed rendered items (layered). Here, they are superimposed back into the digital model.
An architectural character in both its digital and machined form (1:20/10x70x360mm).