Characters at the Hairdresser’s

By means of the programmatic charge of a hairdresser’s, the project seeks to unfurl relational performances and interactions between invented architectural characters – sited within a Brussels arcade. Assembled under a series of mundane alibis, the characters’ individual mannerisms are present as both drawing tools and machined pieces. Played out in parallel between a propositional, yet prototypical, physical test model and assembled LiDAR scans of site and donor model parts, the work examines how – through programmatic skews, distortions and situational repositioning – the choreographed characters and their programmatic associations can be reinterpreted. These methods reveal common formal characteristics that are played out through their varied application(s) – in both project and building – revealing the seams and interstice of their encounters. From this, not only does a dialogue emerge between these architectural characters, but also between the relational properties and associations of the means of practice and modes of programmatic operation.

Digital studies of the hairwashing and hairdrying station

Collating the proposition’s digital information, the studies are the originators of the relational architectural information. From this, come the drawings and made items. The digital studies are therefore prototypical.

Section through hairwashing area

Towards a drawing method concerning printed rendered items (layered). Here, they are superimposed back into the digital model.

Character dialogue study

An architectural character in both its digital and machined form (1:20/10x70x360mm).