This installation is not only a reflective apparatus, but also a reaction to the way we feel about conventional representation in architecture today.

We believe that physical models or images should not merely replicate the completed state of a building, but should also reveal its essence.

In order to achieve this, we look for alternative ways of representation that will feed, rather than interrupt, our thinking process.

This leads us to create structures that we do not entirely control or understand. They nevertheless become sources of ideas that help us and our collaborators see, and react to, the thinking behind the design. In this sense, having outsiders like Ema Peter look at our work and photograph it allows us to rediscover our own work from a new perspective.

A new idea of a building is incomplete without a new idea of an image. Being immersed in a culture so deeply influenced by visual arts, photography quickly imposed itself as a primordial aspect of our design process.

Photography places us in the role of the observer. Through the lens you see things more clearly and become more sensitive to subtle changes. By focusing on one thing and abstracting everything else, you become more intimately tied to your subject and discover details you did not know were there in the first place. When this decisive moment presents itself, you capture it the best you can.

The photograph then becomes a memento – the object crystallized into an impression. The evidence that this moment, this “effect,” existed in the world at some point in time reminds us that this is what we are striving for.

What ultimately matters is this fleeting impression – personal to anyone who sees the building – rather than the static object itself.