Exhibition at PHASE 2 Gallery, 8/09/09 - 2/10/09, 8 Fitzroy St, London W1T 4BJ
Digital Hinterlands features a diverse range of work by some of the best recent architecture graduates from London's Architectural Association, Bartlett , Royal College of Art, and University of Westminster. Curated by Ruairi Glynn in consultation with Arup, this exhibition revealed how the latest computational design and rapid manufacturing processes are providing new ways of understanding and designing space. From built models, 1:1 fragments, material experiments and installations, to interactive devices, virtual worlds and robotics, the exhibition presented the ideas of a wave of young designers, operating on the speculative hinterlands of architectural design.
The work featured in the exhibition has been published alongside interviews, conversations and articles written by leading London Architects in Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands
Digital Hinterlands Exhibition
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Performative self-supporting membrane tensegrities, passive desalination and shoreline revetment — Hulhumalé, the Maldives: A tensegrity construction without the use of wires, which relies solely on the capacity of membranes to transmit all tensile forces. Burgess’s architecture comprises of each individual unit having entirely intrinsic forces. Here tensile forces are not transmitted to neighbouring units, differentiating from conventional lightweight tensile design, which relies on heavy foundations to resist the tensile forces and anchor the structure to the ground. The proposal is an integration of surface with structure, maximising the amount of material in tension, therefore reducing the overall mass of the building materials.