REGISTRATION
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UG6 is fascinated with the reciprocity between methods of architectural design and production and the worlds they give rise to. By engaging the poetic with the practical, the conceptual with the constructed, we seek to discover a wider range of spatial, material, and temporal possibilities for architecture that are more attuned to the sensibilities of our ecological condition.
Our theme for the year was registration, a process for determining the relativity of things. Consider an artist who performs a form of geometric registration by marking the surface of their drawing to determine the spatial difference between features in a landscape. This type of registration attempts to offer certainty over an otherwise changing landscape by figuratively clamping it in place. The affordance of this reductive form of registration is felt across architectural production, from the site survey, through the design process to the placement of materials in the form of a building and its eventual occupation.
While recognising this utility, this year UG6 were captivated by the idea of registration as a form of enquiry that can draw out worlds rather than impose order upon them. By recognising the unique position, the register holds – it is explicitly between things – we developed tools, methods and processes that acted as interlocutors between us and the agencies, environments, and materials we wished to engage. In this light, the act of registration doesn’t cull differences, but provides the ground for differences to play out which in turn holds the potential to produce radically new ways of practicing, building, and occupying architecture.
Design tutor: Stefan Lengen + Ben Spong