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01FEB 2014

Caustic Architecture / Francois Mangion and Shuchi Agarwal

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Caustic Architecture by Francois Mangion and Shuchi Agarwal is a design research investigating the challenging criteria by which one can discuss and evaluate the “materiality” of light as a performative tool to form architecture.

This research is an architectural philosophy situated in the argument between the analysis of light caustics and the rules of optics, proposing a desire to challenge the use of technologies available in the architectural field, overcome any historical limitations and conceive an all-round tool of form, function and experience.

The understanding of light caustics as a phenomenon and its elegance in intricate patterns resulting from its simple interaction with a given material inspired a complex level of design, seductive yet mysterious in integrating a series of light generated architectural tools and explore a new form of relationship between caustics and architecture.

Investigating light down to ray principles, in constant movement and change, develops a dynamic computational design tool towards architecture using light.

Affecting most of the human senses Caustic Architecture follows the rules of light, represents its behaviour and proposes experiential spaces, an architectural vision and a creative digital form finding, combined with the possibilities of design through rules of nature and manufacturing methods.

Investigating how new digital fabrication techniques can be employed in construction with ice together with the study of light and sound, Caustic Architecture research gave birth to the Synesthetic Museum.

Re-thinking how light can evolve into inhabitable spaces; the museum redefines how people occupy the built environment through light caustics and sound, hence experiencing a homogeneous correlation between the volumetric qualities of both.

The design represents the visual analysis of light as a phenomenon, but in principle its architecture represents a study of caustic light performance and how it is scattered in a space.

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