帕蒂与简·材料设计丨美国密歇根

Brandon Clifford, Johanna Lobdell, & Wes McGee

Patty & Jan

Construction is largely evaluated through two practical criteria—time and budget.

Patty & Jan

reconsider construction by prioritizing words such as curiosity, joy, wonder, and whimsy. This impractical entrance is not intended to negate practical considerations, but to elevate the field of construction above problem solving. It looks to previous architectures that emerged because construction was considered a social generator. Whether it be the Amish’s use of community for barn raisings, or the Inka’s use of ritual to engender eternal construction, or the Rapanui’s use of ceremony to transport massive stones. Each of these civilizations entered the act of construction by magnifying experience, instead of lessoning labor. What kinds of architectures could emerge by revisiting the act of construction through alternative criteria?

Patty & Jan

employ material science and physical computation to embed intelligence of a theatrical assembly into the objects themselves, thus liberating the human to play with these beings. A collaboration between Matter Design and CEMEX Global R&D,

Patty & Jan

is a live performance of megalithic assembly.

Credits

Brandon Clifford in collaboration with Davide Zampini—CEMEX Global R&D

year

: 2019

size

: 1.93m x 0.42m x 1.50m

mass

: 544kg & 401kg

material

: Concrete

project leads

: Matthew John Meyers \ Tyler Swingle

acknowledgements

: Funding Provided by CEMEX Global R&D, performed at the University of Michigan, Taubman College, From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete Exhibition