MSD-AAD Studio Spring

The studio focused on the exploration of ecological aesthetics that move architectural design beyond the disciplines ongoing nature – architecture dialogue. Rather than see the two as separate entities, students were tasked with developing architecture that purposefully displays and celebrates buildings enmeshment with their environments. The projects conceived architecture not as a static whole, fixed at the date of its initial construction, but as an assembly of matter constructed and reconstructed where its qualities and configurations are perpetually changing and being regenerated, part by part. In this way, building can possess both qualities of ‘dirtiness’ and pristineness simultaneously as different parts will display different levels of environmental enmeshment, thus avoid trending purely towards obsolescence and ruin.