Prototype for a temporary assembly system that composes architectural elements while helping maintain their integrity in order to have likelier future value and utility.
This project looks at shipping as a source for novel tectonic proposals. As objects come to negotiate other objects, packaging, protective elements and anticipate machines and movement, the world of shipping has mastered the temporary proto-architectures of the object in circulation. The project begins to develop an adaptable assembly systems such as printed panels, ratchet straps, corner guards, adjustable joinery as well as shims, levelers and spacers. These are components that function in the service of other objects. The aim is maintain a temporary relationship between the material components so they can be taken apart, moved around, changed in configuration and/or otherwise return to circulation.
Here the box becomes a testing unit, a primitive shape that imbues many of the problems needed for architectural prototyping; edges, corners, faces, a way to negotiate the ground, a need for being held together… a perfect 3D test dummy.
Delaney was architectural / web / kit / scenographic / systems designer for stock-a-studio under Xavi Aguirre from 2018 – 2021.
