Description
This class will be centered on the design, drawing, modelling, fabrication, and assembly of rammed earth rock-like objects. We will engage these material and forms not as nostalgic references to nature, but as vibrant vehicles for the deliberate exploration of circularity and recycling. Specifically, we will dwell on the tension between rammed earth’s raw, textured, and imperfect materiality and its translation into a post-digital workflow including fabrication, forming, and assembly. Students will get to experiment with rammed earth to create artificial strata, layering pigmentation and gradient textures to explore the overlap between geological time scale in the construction of, hopefully inspiring and strange, boulder-like objects. In such way, the seminar will engage students with both the material’s physical and aesthetics properties as well as its broader theoretical and cultural implications. It will enable students to take a position as well as develop a nuanced formal and tect