Deep Ornament Course Synopsis

Deep Ornament
DIA Dessau Institute of Architecture
Advanced Architecture Studio

Matias del Campo

Deep Ornament
- component driven architectures.

The Frauenhofer Salon, a showcase for science, research and design.

Synopsis

Deep Ornament explores the opportunities present in the morphologies of ornamentations as point of departure for the design of architectural conditions. Inherent qualities such as space articulation, components, organization, structure and circulation form the ground for a variety of speculations on spatial conditions. The sensorial and spatial experiences co-notated with the manifold qualities of contemporary, algorithm driven ornaments, from their topological qualities to the distribution of components and patterns forming the structural body, are scrutinized for their architectural qualities and incorporated in a project.

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