Fabrication
PROJECT

KISSING SPARROWS

LOCATION: Buffalo, NY
CLIENT: Silo City
YEAR: 2014
TYPE: Installation
PHASE: Built
SIZE: 100 sf
TEAM: as +Farm

In the unbound curiosity of material experimentation, the architectural installation is an innate, even addictive compulsion toward the haptic calling of invention. An appealing serenade wrapped in a seductive promise, the pleasurable benefits of Kissing Sparrows indulges many curiosities. The project fathoms the unfathomable by jettisoning the archival history of material performance in search of new possibilities hidden within paradoxical shadows. Kissing Sparrows, corrupted by the Siren’s licentious song the strays from convention, it is not a global grid or soft skin, but rather a fabric like nest that is both rigid and fluid.

 

Sparrows will be deployed across a structural dia-grid as a two-part component system (nesting + kissing panels), exciting both architectural voyeurs and experts alike. By embracing the technique of hand rolling, Kissing Sparrows seeks to construct a behavioral installation that is based on a fluttering experience while altering situational possibilities. The project itself is a laboratory of notions and is dedicated to material practice and the relationship between theoretical and practical manipulations.