This project focuses on shapeless materials. It takes a potentially playful material and approaches it poetically and technically. Gelatin is used as a ‘shapeless’ formwork, allowing the positive to form the negative as both change states. We used a hybrid of precise, digital and experimental, physical methods to get an increasingly layered feedback loop of design. We discussed the pros and cons of the increase and decrease of material information in the process from manual to digital. We were concerned with scaling intricate manual findings to something viable over the whole building or construction system. This detail change is exemplified through the different areas of our proposal: a modular building that demonstrates the possibilities of texture via the different manufacturing methods we explored.

Making copies without casting, copying copies of copies, and copied copies are copied for the sake of copying. An architectural language emerged out of the materials shifting shape without predetermined shapes, shaping how we see materials and time, which is a prerequisite for space making. Our catalogue of shapes from the shapeless has so far shaped how we think of shapes and not the shapes themselves.