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Symbiotic Archi-atomy

Dean Francis

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I have a tactile approach to design where designing through making allows me to express forms and structures to the best of my abilities. Working with a range of materials and art techniques to expand architectural design in more of a collaboration between the art disciplines.

I have a tactile approach to design where designing through making allows me to express for...

Symbiotic Archi-atomy: Healing bodies in the age of breakdown

In an age of post lockdown, finally reintegrating back into society. It is hard to see how our bodies harness the energy to help us recover back to a new norm. We look to nature for assistance. Surrealism explores the hybridity of stitched- together elements to create an alternative archetype for us to escape into. What is this reality where nature takes over?

Creating a space where the architecture emulates the body's relationship with nature, an archi-atomy of decay and healing. A space where we can benefit from this symbiotic exchange from organic material to help our bodies heal in the age of breakdown.

Final work

  • Hand Drawn Exquisite Corpse showing what nature means to them
  • Display of My Exquisite Corpse drawing with a series of models
Isometric textural Drawings of my ceramic temple

Ceramic Temple

Illustrative hand drawn renders of my ceramic temple where I explore textures to create a series of ceramic and natural hatchings to express materiality to the design 

Material Rendering

Celebration of Clay and Earth

Research and process

Experimentations of rammed earth and making them erode

Rammed Earth Controlled Erosion

Exploring ways I can utilise the process of natural erosion and decay to create structural sculptural forms of materials like rammed earth. How far can I push the topological factors and create forms more organic to nature? 

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Symbiotic Archi-atomy

Symbiotic Archi-atomy: Healing bodies in the age of breakdownIn an age of post lockdown, finally reintegrating back into society. It is hard to see how our bodies harness the energy to help us recover back to a new norm. We look to nature for assistan...

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