Diploma Unit Two. Architectural Association School of Architecture

Tools for Architecture is a research unit based at the Architectural Association in London formed by a team of MArch AA Diploma students and lead by Space Popular directors Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg.

Material and formal explorations

The following material and formal explorations were created upon an interest in the amount of control one can have over a material. The form of the host is rigid and controlled (conventional), whereas the form of the guest has a certain degree of a lack of control (unconventional, organic).

Host Building Blocks

 

Nylon and Resin Experiments

 

Syringed Plaster on metal wires

 

Plaster on Perspex rods
Before and after adding plaster

 

Combining plaster with Resin nylon

 

Guests

 

Plaster on perspex rods growing out of metal