Metabolistic Assemblies and the Poetics of Repair

This studio imagines a rethinking of resource challenges and changes the presence of architecture, its design space, and its poetics.

Architecture, the way it is designed and produced, is under pressure to rethink its practices in order to address its responsibility and agency in an era of climate crises. A particular aspect of this crises lies with the current rampant overconsumption of resources. The built environment is notoriously intense in its use of materials. By predominantly depending on a small subset of materials extracted from the geosphere, we have contributed to a global material crisis with severe socio‐political, economic, and environmental repercussions. In response, the call for augmenting, optimising, and informing design and construction practice has led to new paradigms that seek to innovate structural thinking by enabling us to rethink the materials that we use, minimize material deployment, and engage material performance.