Rare Space

medium: plexiglass, digital

Rare Space is a three step study of the structural qualities of the teasel plant, and their possible influence on the form and function of architectural space. The study focused on the puncturing, bending, and warping effects the plants thorns inflicted on various types of delicate membranes. The effects observed were then reproduced on a larger scale by melting plexiglass over nails. The melted products were then photographed and viewed as occupiable space. This transformation from biological form to structure both questions the state of current architectural practice and provides a possibility for a more dynamic methods of design in the future.