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Experiments in Architectural Material and Form
21 Jun 2020
Experiments in Architectural Material and Form Exhibition
Curated by Omer Arbel
Exhibition: 29 Aug ? 22 Oct 2020

Venue: Aedes Architecture Forum, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin

Opening hours: Tue-Fri 11am-6.30pm, Sun-Mon 1-5pm

Multidisciplinary artist and designer Omer Arbel will present a new solo exhibition of architectural works in progress at Aedes Architekturforum in Berlin. From 29th August until 15th October, 2020, the show 75, 86, 91, 94 will document a series of major innovations within Arbel?s ongoing experimental practice.
The Experiments in Architectural Material and Form exhibition will present four architecture projects, named in the order of their creation, which are currently underway. These works demonstrate Arbel?s decade old signature process – letting the intrinsic properties of a given material suggest its form, rather than impose an external idea of form upon the material. In 75, a house, this emerges as a unique method of casting concrete into stretched fabrics, which acknowledges its intrinsic plasticity and reduces labour and waste found in typical construction. 86, a large industrial building also experiments with the liquid properties of poured concrete, this time over formwork composed of haphazardly stacked hay bales wrapped in loose fabric.
Both 91 and 94 are houses set to ...