Location: Hackney River Front - London, UK | Status: Not Built | Program: Library/Study Space | Software: Grasshopper, Rhino, Modo | Model: SLS 3D Print | 2009
The Arch_ive is a design for a library of sorts. This “boneyard” for post-review architectural artifacts developed in academia also serves as a hub for information exchange.
The form responds to previously used loading and unloading sites along Deptford Creek in the Hackney District of London in a series of converging and expanding spaces.
The perforated envelope is parametrically programmed and becomes more or less porous depending on how “flexed” the membrane is at any given moment.
Done in collaboration with Erick Katzenstein.