Design Yearbook 2017

Studio 4 – Matter
Graham Farmer & Paul Rigby
The studio celebrates ‘Matter’ and encourages design processes that are founded on a dialogic and emergent understanding of materiality.
The studio challenges the notion of buildings as static assemblies of neutral products and instead seeks concrete material practices in which
technology is always both contextual and performative.
Students start by selecting their own matter to ‘collaborate’ with and as a group have explored new understandings of conventional construction
materials like timber and ceramics, along with experimental new materialities interrogating growth, form-making and formlessness. Themes of
making, manufacture, entropy, flux, transformation and environmental renewal are all prominent in the student work.
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Alexander Baldwin-Cole Bakethin Weir Facility