Self-builds / Installations
Art Trails, Wilderness Street, Pasticcio Tower, Adolf Loos Tomb, Antiroom I + II, Naturescape
Art Trails - 2022
Walk Local Talk Local was a public artwork consisting of a series of temporary audio trails that celebrate local high streets through conversations with local people. Informal conversations with residents, business owners, or enthusiasts have been translated into anonymous anecdotal podcasts. These podcasts are accessible as a digital audio experience, combined with physical QR code plaques that allow listeners to reveal each story while walking the trails.
Together, a rich audio archive and a sequence of gateways reveal stories about the area’s hidden history. Each trail explores the deeply individual memories embedded in these streets yet captures some of the energy and imagination that we can all reflect on and connect with. JKA
Wilderness Street - 2022
A temporary urban living landscape was installed in a London suburb town centre. It was identified as a critical artery that binds Ilford’s most important cultural venues and the high street. The project advocates for preserving ancient natural landscapes and their role in maintaining biodiversity and supporting well-being. JKA
Pasticcio Tower - 2017
A proposal for a tower commissioned by the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The tower was composed of varied architectural references fused into a new whole: A new kind of tower made out of fragments of history. The curators put together what might be called the “Late Late Entries” to the 1922 Tribune Tower competition. They asked 16 architects from around the world to design new versions of the skyscraper that went on display as a series of 16-foot-tall architectural models in the Chicago Cultural Center. SJS
image © steve hall
Adolf Loos Tomb - 2016
The resurrection of Austrian Modernist architect Adolf Loos’s 1921 design for a mausoleum for art historian Max Dvorák. Though never built, the image of Loos’ design has haunted architectural culture ever since. Here the heavy dark and masonic form is recreated at 1:1 scale using a lightweight timber frame and scaffold net: A ghostly reenactment of an unrealised architectural idea. SJS
image © sarah duncan
Antiroom II - 2015
A floating space on the sea shore of Malta. Its form became an unreachable surface from the ground, only accessible by swimming or by boat. The wood structure created a space separated from the vastness of the unlimited sea. Its center defined as a small secure water pool. It remained light and gentle through its floating and instability. One can enter its core, swim around it and contemplate its structure. EASA
image © ahmad el mad
Antiroom I - 2014
A primordial amphitheatre, which implanted itself in the forest. The modular repetition of the constructive elements made it dynamic and infinitely reproducible. It was a single red colour, this dissolved the room and created a mystical unitary space which complemented itself with the green of the forest. When the wind or people entered it gave life to the structure, the doors danced and the space breathed. EASA
image © alexandra konochenko
Naturescape - 2013
Was a temporary installation for the Il Casone showroom at Milan Design Week. The clean and pure pietra serena stone was used to recreate a topography that, as in real landscapes, molds the shape of water, formalised the presence of a natural vegetation, and finally for guiding people, as visitors, to roam among nature and objects. KKAA
image © giovanni de sandre