concept & vision

STACK / CUT is a vast study that begins with set parameters. Part discovery, part reflection and rumination on the way we worked till now—why and how we do what we do—this conceptual study aims to investigate and record all variations within those given parameters, and in doing so to create the imaginary landscape that our past and future projects inhabit, each one a precise selection, extracted from its larger family and logic, and frozen in its specific configuration. STACK/CUT starts as a process of self-awareness to analyze how we have - over the past 25 years - instinctively related to the ISO shipping container as a volumetric and spatial object, and how we have enacted the 2 primary operations through which we modify it (or them) to create volumes and spaces - the 2 primary objectives of architecture

design & architecture

in the installation, we show works on cardboard boxes, laser-cut drawings of projects imagined, in which we reconfigure containers without any other intervention than repositioning/stacking. We show large photographs of two tests we did reassembling boxes for one day only, and an actual cutout leftover from a previous project. We also test cutting containers obsessively following a mathematical order. A large wallpaper begins to express our thoughts and logic, and the actual matrix we use. And for the love of books, we make a laser-cut two-sided book of the two operations of stacking and cutting

impact & significance

STACK / CUT is our alphabet, dictionary, encyclopedia, but also our catalog. Totally conceptual yet instrumental to the practice, the project is abstract and applicable at once, a real compendium, an index or a manual for the work done and the one to come