3. DIY fix

The third installment, fantastic, thank you everyone for joining up to this point. 
These two images are fixtures I saw in a family friend’s apartment.  (Once I get more information on who exactly designed and built the fixtures themself I will add this information accordingly.)

The first image, a foil rotary slowly spins as it reacts to heat from a light bulb below.

The second image, a plant called an Anubias, (we think) submerged in water inside a plastic vinyl lined record crate.

Both of these objects can easily be replicated with the resources we have at SU. So I intend on making my own versions when I get back to school. Both fixtures I find pleasing and interesting. an innate attaction to light or greenery maybe...

I have this chair sketch:

and its just a hodgepodge inspired by the fixtures discussed. It makes no practical sense and I have no intention of building such a thing. I introduce it as an example of ideation.

If replicating or reimaging the designs discussed in this post interests you, especially if you have your own ideations to share, please consider DMing the instagram page or reaching out via the “contact mike” prompt in the website header. ︎ Thoughtful Ideas interesting or uninteresting, related or completely unrelated, are always invited and incouraged.

Finally, some quotes by Noura Al Sayeh Holtrop (Instagram: @nouralsayeh)for 2G magazine (Instagram: @2g_magazine) on the architect Leopold Banchini, which offers some insight into DIY as a big picture idea, and also give some context into why DIY is interesting to me. Holtrop brings up a lot of themes that I hope to dive into deeper as I continue my exploration:

“Do-it-yourself comes up in Leopold's work out of necessity....”

“DIY is sometimes deployed as a stylistic short-hand. [Banchini’s] interest in simplifying and rethinking the architectural process, reducing it to a more human scale, seems to lay primarily within a posited recalibration of architecture.”

“It is a reaction against the increasing professionalisation and corporatisation of the field, and a return to a more fundamental approach to building.”

“Projects such as the Moon Ra Pavilion and Atelier Hawksebury are in fact also partially built in cooperation either with students or, in the latter case, craftspeople. Once again, the aim was to broaden out the commonly accepted repertoire of the architect, this time into that of the builder/contractor.”

“The process of self-building reconnects the act of building to a collective and performative one, where the action of making is as important as the end result.”
“It attempts to create spatial qualities with minimal effort and means, in a celebration of the ready-made, the available and the locally found.”

TAKEAWAYS:
CONSIDER BUILDING IT
CONSIDER REACHING OUT
CONSIDER GETTING INVOLVED