PRIMITIVES [2]
London, United Kingdom
2022
OZRUH
Description:
PRIMITIVES [2] tackles with complexities of the architectural scale and explores the ways in which compositional coherence can co-exist with uniqueness through the geometries within a kit of parts.
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The system offers a bottom-up alternative to the preplanned and division-oriented way of designing and building, offering a level of optionality and reconfigurability where each unique part is a whole and each whole is a part of what is yet to come.
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The volumetric potential of the system allows for a vast array of uses from a limited set of pieces, creating an undefined yet functional space. The designs generated from this system therefore allows for a bottom-up assembly, one that is not predetermined, but can continuously grow and change, never fully completed and always able to adapt.
Architectural design has been converging into an ever more homogenous notion of form and assembly. We are stuck at a formal simplicity that does not cherish the diversity and plurality of the world that surrounds us. The vocabulary of the current mainstream architectural language over-simplifies our cultural understanding of design into a globalized endeavor without putting it at the forefront of innovation.
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Most architectural assemblies today are based on subdividing closed envelopes that create well-defined, top-down relationships between the parts and the whole, rarely allowing for growth or adaptive reuse. These parts, whether standardized or bespoke, serve the whole and have none or little individual meaning on their own. The whole, on the other hand, is only a whole in its perfect state and assembly configuration, making its visual understanding highly fragile to change and aging.
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In response to this condition, we believe in the power of bottom-up, material-oriented thinking that gives new meanings to the part-whole relationship, whereby the architectural design is a combination of cultural divergence and technological convergence, with new tools constantly contributing to expanding the ways in which we think and we approach design.
Principal Design: OZRUH
Installation Team: Levent Ozruh, Sara MartÃnez Zamora
Exhibition Design: Timefold Studio
Photography: Lloyd Lee
Videography: Ataman Kizilirmak
Location:
Material Matters (London Design Festival) - 09/2022
Formnext (Frankfurt) - 11/2022
Technical info:
Material: SH-F01
Category:
Architecture
OZRUH
Established in 2019 in London, OZRUH is deeply inspired by the principles of evolution and diversity in nature, driving us to venture beyond the traditional confines of manual and analog human creativity. Our pursuit is aimed at harnessing the intrinsic diversity and richness offered by nature's evolutionary processes, proposing an architectural ethos that is pluralistic rather than idealistic.
Our design philosophy embraces the entropic nature of our universe. Moving away from the closed-ended silhouettes characteristic of historical architecture, which often relied on straightforward geometrical forms, we focus on creating structures that are anti-fragile, adaptable, and open-ended. This approach signifies a departure from the fragilities associated with the entropy of historical architectures to an open-ended methodology that extracts value from disorder and randomness. Thus, architecture can move beyond the binary state of being complete or incomplete to an adaptive state, characterized by incremental progressions of growth, aging, or reconfiguration.
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