Firmitas
Bypassing the typically linear process of design followed by construction, and reversing traditional skeletal structural systems Plasma Studio programmed a stack of standard industrial steel sheeting with information in the form of perforated seams.
As in recent automotive strategies, the seemingly weakened material organization enables a formation of global stress distribution lines achieving a different kind of structural performance.

Utilitas
The sheet material negotiates the three parameters of curatorial organisation, site and structural form-finding. Whilst providing surface and backdrop for the other exhibits, it also pursues more traditional architectural practices by extending this function into the realm of a response with its own unique qualities and attributes.

Venustas
While the piece is derived from a rigorous set of proportional relationships, these merely differentiate the material consistency to direct the reciprocal forces within the process of production. A contemporary aesthetic discussion stems from the embedded interrelationships and processes, the sensuality of forms liberated from straightjacket Cartesian rules and its weightless appearance.

Sponsored by Corus Colorcoat, Sextenkultur

Video projections Douglas Spencer

CNC-punchpressing Strataform

The physical act of folding and assembling became instrumental to the morphogenesis. Stress distribution could be physically felt and was addressed intuitively by switching fold lines and developing thrust patterns.