Final Project : Matthew Senkowycz

This Digital Research Studio provided a platform from which I could explore a personal area of interest, the parallels between architecture and fashion and textiles.  Initially beginning with a perfect case study, a house in Nimes, France called Spidernethewood by a Parisian firm called R&Sie(n). Essentially a maze of nets and fabric passages through a concrete box and over densified planting. 

 I then proceeded to pen an essay inspired by a quote from Dame Vivienne Westwood, looking in parallel at the work of architecturally inspired clothiers, and movements such as the Situationist International, thinking about how a wearable architecture can lend itself to the fulfillment of primitive human desires.

 

After realizing, that this is primarily achieved, in a society obsessed with consumption, through the acquisition of possessions, I began to explore how such a culture of excess could be manifested in architectural terms.  Arriving at a place where tumors like bubbles began to demarcate all signs of human occupation between the oblique planes and folded slabs of that make up my Beach House.  The final design stands as a series of question for future exploration.

Comments:
This project has a very ambitious conceptual approach. The use of bladders to contain material excess is quite poetic and violent at the same time. The only precedent that I could find is this very recent project by Murmur, heather ROBERGE, called the "Succulent House", with bladders retaining rain water.
Matthew has an enormous curiosity, a very good quality for a designer.