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François Girardin and Filip Visnjic and
Jon Goodbun

Pure Fabrication

DS04 try to continue its works on the physical and digital possibility of an architectural education, structured around a series of exercises that aimed to expose students to the possibility of a sensorial, productive, and reactive space. The year started with composition, pattern and tectonics exercises, leading into smalls projects dealing with dry fabrication and cardboard construction. The final project, a vertical campus, is based on a thin, narrow and tall typoplogy: it has no real site, instead a series of constraint had to be tested: Notion of Typical and Atypical, Privacy and Exposure, Advertising and Introversion, Projection and Image, Sensors and Effects, Abstraction and Situation, Constraint and Creativity, Scale and Occupation, Fabrication and Projection, and finally Skin and Screen. Ultimately the object of the work is to define an approach to subjective identity in a contemporary culture of fast construction, turnover, and relentless advertising exposure.