LAB
Self-initiated work. No client, no brief, no deadline that mattered — the research that shows up in everything else we make.
THE ROOT
The city stops being built and starts being grown.
THINGSNOBODYASKED USTO make.
Nothing here was commissioned. Each entry is a question we wanted answered badly enough to spend a week on, kept whether or not it worked.
TOUCH
Two surfaces meet, and only one of them survives the meeting.
WEIGHT
Mass, described only by what it does to everything under it.
PRESSURE
The frame before something gives, held for as long as we could stand it.
MEMORY
A material that keeps the shape of what happened to it.
SPECIMEN
An object lit as evidence rather than as product.
SUSPENSION
Something held in place by a force the picture never shows.
IMMERSION
A body of liquid photographed as architecture.
POROUS
A surface that is mostly absence, described by the light that gets through it.
SLOW METAL
Chrome behaving like fabric, without ever looking soft.
ROOM 9
One locked-off shot of a corridor, and the feeling that you are late.
SOFT MACHINE
Industrial objects with the wrong material memory.
ZERO GRAVITY TYPE
Letterforms with mass but no floor.
THE MECHANISM
A machine that does not exist, held to watch-advertising tolerances.
CAST SHADOW
An object described entirely by what it displaces.
THE SLOW HOUR
An object that only makes sense if you watch it longer than you meant to.
WEATHER
A figure described entirely by the water falling around it.
CONTACT
An interface built as hardware, so it has to be honest about its parts.
FIRST DRAFT
A brief drawn before anyone approved it, and a room that finishes the drawing.
CARRIER
An object photographed through the thing that distorts it.