There is an increasing gulf between the magnitude and complexity of the physical world we inhabit and our understanding of it. Gone are the days when we took pride in knowing how everyday objects worked and when we knew how to repair them and keep them in good working order. Instruction manuals used to be important references to help us understand the world of objects. They would catalogue their constituent parts and use exploded drawings and step-by-step diagrams to illustrate their inner workings and describe how they could be assembled or taken apart again.
This year, we used manuals to inform an approach to design which was explicitly resourceful and instructive about the materials which were proposed, the processes involved in manufacture and assembly and the ways in which we imagined our buildings might be inhabited once in use. We also used manuals to inform an approach to architectural representation by creating our own manuals to describe how our buildings were made, what they were designed to do and how they might be disassembled and reconfigured in the future.
This year our projects were located in Fish Island and Hackney Wick, an area which is renowned for its history of fabrication.
Yorgos Loizos and Ned Scott
Chris Stobbart
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