Making provides a pragmatic way of understanding what you are designing, and more importantly why. The tactile nature of fabricating three dimensional forms with your hands is what connects our brain to the response an Architect will deliver to the world. And it is through this purposeful act of the craft which has guided me through architecture.
With physical modelling presenting the different forms that a certain material can make, and the digital space breaking the boundaries of applying these conceptual forms in an architectural scale. It is then the work of the Architect to synergise the creative freedoms of making with meaningful human interactions.
With studio 3.1, a series of iterative models were made in response to the client’s desire to develop a whisky distillery in the context of their own home brewing background of alcohol. The models became metaphors for the distillation process itself, opening the brewer’s mind to understand how it works at a microscopic level, like strung fibres which weave into fabrics. This language of weaving and the flow of fabric is translated into architectural form to reflect this chosen metaphor.
These concepts are resolved in 3.2, synergising structure and passive systems with the defined formal language to create spaces which are energy efficient and where structural elements celebrate that themes and message of the building. As this project weaves the conceptual with the technological aspects of architecture, so does the presentation as shown with the included QR codes, so you may experience a bespoke gift of whisky distillation, crafted and woven for you.
