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Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication
practice that creates experimental built environments
to enhance and celebrate the potential for social interaction
through sensation, spectacle and physical engagement while
striving to infuse the matter of the built environment
with a downstream purpose. To achieve these results, we
work with unusual materials, develop new digital tools,
and apply architectural techniques in unorthodox ways.
We share an enthusiasm for the fabrication process as
it relates to the built object both physically and poetically
by letting the properties, limitations, and economic scenarios
associated with a material guide a structure’s ultimate
form while developing methods to extend the intertwined
boundaries of a material’s aesthetics, physical
potential and lifecycle.
We seek opportunities to build that are outside
the treacherous restraints of the conventional architectural
milieu so that we may more tightly focus our energies on research
and practice that directly addresses the experiential realm
of the physically constructed world and the transition of
material from an architecturally scaled structure through
its dismantling and beyond. Our design process is a carefully
orchestrated collaboration between partners – one focused
on digital development, the other using a hands-on approach
to fabrication research. Scale models, computer models, and
full scale mock-ups inform one another in a cycle of feedback
so we may study all aspects of a design at various scales
and through various media. While this approach is not a new
development in the field of architecture we feel that it is
essential given the rapid evolution of computer modeling techniques,
CNC fabrication capabilities and exciting material discoveries.
We do not seek to distance ourselves from the built environment
through the use of digital tools…rather we seek to master
their use, reinterpret their capabilities and adapt or modify
them to suit our intentions.
We study technique so that we can move beyond it and
into the realm of creating atmosphere. |
