Bora Malko

After working with expandable foam for a few weeks, we treated it as something fluid, taking an organic form of its own. We combined it with various everyday materials and made it seems as if it could squish itself or drip everywhere becoming almost uncomfortable. In this sense I started looking at something similar which can pass everywhere almost adhering its shape to that of others while still maintaining a level of unease when addressed. Therefore I decided to work with cables The design challenge was to create a stage with our "material" by making it interactive while demonstrating an obvious sense of expertise and technique. Besides showing the stage through pictures we were also asked to come up with a video.  After making a video of the stage, I implemented a small portion of it into a green room in order to put it into a different context. In real life the stage was arranged inside a Georgian style room which created quite a nice contrast between the digit...

     Th e second part of this course was part of a group project where we had to actually use the structure element not as a single unit but as part of a system in order to create space which is both functional and serves our aesthetic design as architects.     Our  fi rst element was “Arches”.     After coming up with a geometry which was aesthetically satisfying we put our model though the form-finding process to come up with the final design.  The final design: Th e second task of the group work was to create another structure related to the  fi rst one but this time using “trusses” as the main structural system. We tried to retain most of the visual resemblance from the first structure will approximating the geometry.

    The first stage of the Technical Studies course was arranged around a specific shape convention which we were asked to adjust and reimagine in four different stages. Each stage was focused on one technical attribute crucial to architectural building. The stages varied from the first original design one in which we were asked to choose our main materials and establish an initial concept, to the second with was focused on "Materiality" where we were required to make our cube lighter, then moving on to the third stage focused on "Temperature" where our design should be made visible only through a heat detecter by modifying the inside of the cube while the outside showed nothing of the hidden design, and lastly the fourth stage focused on "Stability" where we had to push the boundaries of the cube geometry by making a structure which seems highly unstable but is actually self supported.      The materials my group decided to use were: Plaster, ...

The second stage of the "porosity" brief was to come up with a building proposal based on our material and an existing building we were assigned. The main theme of the project is "Sensations" which we previously explored in isolated cases with our materials, and were then asked to implement these sensations into our building proposals. My assigned case was "Mountain Dwellings" by BIG in Copenhagen, Denmark. The main attribute of the apartment complex is its geometry based on one single unit repeated in a certain way to create the mountain - like topography. Another main attribute is the "atrium" which makes up two thirds of the whole structure and is used as a parking lot. In my proposal I decided to modify and use one of my final wool iterations of the previous brief as a single living unit which would be repeated throughout the structure which in my case will no longer be a residential building but rather a student accommodation one. Consid...