Sharjah Architecture Triennial
We were invited to participate in the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial in collaboration with Dr Ola Uduku.
The Triennial entitled ‘The Beauty of Impermanence’ and curated by Tosin Osinoso seeks to explore architectural solutions and innovations that are borne out of conditions of scarcity within the global south.
Using circular design principles, our project utilises a range of media to shine a light on the work of the late Nigerian-British architect Alan Vaughan Richards who developed highly contextual bioclimatic architecture in 1960s Lagos. The installation aimed to reinterpret the spaces within Alan’s experimental home using the recently digitised archive of his drawings but contextualise this within the building culture of Sharjah. Using cutting edge digital printing techniques. The central element explores the use of fabric and clothing as an architectural device to control air and shade designed in collaboration with Alan’s daughter Remi who is a film-maker and textile designer floats in contrast to the modernist Al Quasimi School.
The ‘light box’, a tool architectural drawings that pre-dates computer aided design was reinterpreted as a glowing stretched fabric cube printed with key architectural drawings from the archive.
A curved timber screen is used as a projection surface for a film that was developed in collaboration with Remi Vaughan Richards illustrating key moments within his home.
The exhibit has been designed for a second life where the fabric archive will become a a range of architectural wearables.
