Overall, I am satisfied with my chosen object relating to
architecture and my interdisciplinary skin. This two projects’ processes are
tough and enjoyable, especially for the second project, we meet the problem on
metal shaping and solve it and experiment together. This process shows the
importance of the communication for project, everybody improved through the
conversation and learn something from others. After that, you take your time to
absorb the ideas and experience from other people and develop your own working
system.
It was my first time to shape aluminium skin on my life, the
experience is wonderful. I want to say this is not a process to make a project,
but actually a period to understand one material. The metal, the aluminium is a
really strange material, it will shrink, stretch, deform, and crinkle. Sometimes
you need to hit hard to get the shape, but sometimes you have to tap gently to
refine and smooth the skin.
My grandpa taught me wood carving few years ago, I
quite familiar with wood, especially the box wood. Compare wood carving and
metal shaping, in my opinion, wood is more like human body, it is solid, strong
, like mountain and earth; aluminium is like cloth and silk, more light and
dynamic, sometimes unstable. But for any material, like timber, metal, glass, ceramic,
clay, they have their own characteristics and we need long time to understand
them.
As an architect, materiality is the key element to our architecture.
Without material, architecture will no more exist. You may say the space can be
empty, but actually air also is the material, just invisible, but still give
different feelings, warm or cold. On Peter Zumthor’s <atmosphere>, he said materiality will
change the atmosphere, in same space, timber will warm you and steel would make
you feel chilled. Although different
materials have different quality, but for us , we can treat them gently,
explore their potential, use them differently to refine our architecture detail
and space quality.
Now , ETH erects sandstone vault at Venice Biennale, it is a large vault, same like our project, it has template as a base and use stone and cement as the skin, it is quite interesting to see different materials on one process, this can be a case to study.
the work comprises 399 individually cut stones, unreinforced and without mortar image © ETH zürich
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