The project embraces the relationship between the tools and the cast erected through them, the traces left by these tools on architectural form, as well as the pre-determinism in the form that lies within the tools it is made with.

The standardisation of the architectural and construction industry can represent an unfortunate loss of opportunity for the architect’s creativity. Its appealing traits however, such as low cost and fast production, very important in the reality of today’s economy, could be used toward innovation instead. A new construction process, made as standard as possible, engaging the architect in a hands-on process in which he embraces the material’s behaviour and its imperfection is here investigated.

The proposal consists of a low tech mould mechanism, a simple prop system, easily deployable on site and reinvented to be used in combination with flexible formwork, allowing a wide range of designs, making the construction process of bespoke forms more suitable within today’s construction industry. With this construction process, there is no separation between the head and the hand. In a search for a more plastic and tactile experience of the space, the architect doesn’t design a building, but rather the means of realizing it.

This construction system has led to the curation of a horizontal system, a network of beams dropping down from the ceiling.

The proposed tectonic is designed to create subtle enclosures through the ceiling itself, suggesting paths of circulation with the creases in the geometry.

The beam element creates boundaries that vary from simply visual pocketing of spaces, to physical divisions where the beam comes down as close to 40 cm to the floor. The user is given the option to duck in or crawl into the most engaging spaces in the building.