The workshop took its cues from contemporary discourse on repurposing ‘the real’ as well as from historical examples in art and architecture, such as found object, adhocism, and spolia. A set of objects were selected and curated to form the stock/raw material for the design. The the objects were grouped into architectural massing following typical/atypical means of assembly such as post-lintel, stacking, puzzle and digitized using photogrammetry applications for 3D scanning. These couplings of objects in groups were studied in regards to adjacencies of objects of wildly different kinds and means of connection.
The concept of ‘container’ represented the idea of containing where the object can be absorbed, surrounded, enveloped around it, held within, or even encrypted. The contained object transgresses beyond tangibility or being camouflaged with the container. In terms of representation, the workshop investigated how photogrammetry is used to capture geometry, color, texture of existing, unique objects for creating entire new mass. Architectural drawings typically delineate surfaces and masses through abstract line work. By playing with different lights, painting the objects, post-producing meshes and image maps, the physical properties of the original objects are altered as they shift between mediums.
