Borderline Bodies
M.Arch Thesis Project
Design
The thesis explored a framework for integrating a structural agency within a adaptable architectural framework, through the interaction between agent and constraint as borderline structural and architectural functions.
Tutor
Kengo Skorick, Jonas Runberger (Material Turn Studio)
Examiner
Jonas Lundberg
Year
2019
The project explores a contemporary and adaptive take on traditional vaulting as a set of adaptable modules. These are derived from a doubly curved, stiffened membrane spanning between a set of distinct, more conventional architectural elements such as walls and floors. By embracing the contrast between the two geometric types, through their interaction as constraints and agent, a framework emerges which is both undulating and rigid. The project explores a range of spatial conditions across different scales where this module can act both sculpturally and structurally in a continuous blend.
Model of plaster cast on a suspended membrane.
Design studies mapped as interpolations between programatical, sculptural and structural function.
The final proposal as a cultural center with a varying range of spatial conditions.
