How materials help architects realize beauty, texture and emotion in creative designs?
CADE will continue to work with young curator Mr. Gao Changjun to design special exhibition of the Possibility of Materials - a space installation exhibition showcasing the unique and creative installations designed by the leading architects using selected special materials. Professor Li Xiangning from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University will be the general counsel, and Mr. Gao Changjun will be curator.
Themed as Shelter, the space will be designed by architects including Shui Yanfei, Zang Feng, Meng Fanhao, Liu Kenan and a 5D team using different materials to present different scenarios and creating a spatial aesthetics via design and materials. Five unique spatial installations with a strong interactive function that allows visitors to probe the projects and experience them in different dimensions. It will be a special experience to explore the infinite possibilities of space and materials.
The Possibility of Materials will be debuted at the space installation section during CADE (August 3-6, 2023 at National Convention and Exhibition Center Shanghai). The interactive installation allows visitors to understand the project profoundly, experience and touch more dimensions of materials, and explore the infinite possibilities of space and materials.
Instead of using ordinary structural materials most used in engineering practice, the exhibition will select more expressive enclosure materials which are highly recognizable and more flexible to shape the space. Based on the theme Shelter, the architects from five design firms will select one kind of the materials including glass, membrane, stainless steel, ceramic brick and bamboo to compose different shelters with different scenarios.
The Space Installation Exhibition of CADE attempts to re-establish the connections and loop of the pre-feedback. It aims to support material manufacturers to carry out R&D breakthroughs from the design dimension and to allow architects to fully participate in this R&D breakthrough experiment, so that the experiments and innovations with construction materials will become more diversified. One of the basic characteristics of the installation is to emphasize the integrity of the environment and to focus on the interaction between the audience and the project. Focusing on the materials, it may be possible to make the audience have a new look at the traditional or modern architecture.