Interior Design, Culture & Society
“The process of making is no longer entirely linear. Producers engage in design, and designers engage in production. Production becomes part of the design process by working with assemblers from the outset, designers’ picture how things are made, their sequence of assembly, and their joining systems. Materials scientists are drawn into direct conversation and problem-solving with engineers and even with designers. The intelligence of all relevant disciplines is used as a collective source of inspiration and constraint.”
Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake, Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform
Building Construction (New York, N.Y. McGraw-Hill, 2004 p.13)
The Assignment
A project was selected as the focus of this study, which could have been in the form of a building, interior, installation or piece of furniture.
This assignment gave the opportunity to investigate ways in which materials have been used in a realised project and explored factors that have influenced the final design.
The investigation explored how issues related to material properties, sourcing and fabricating impacted on the design.
The Buga Wood Pavilion was a materially driven project where innovation, design, consultant and manufacturer engagement were part of theproject’s realisation.
