Intermediate Fragment: Explorative Materials and Machining Driven Design

This text and its connected exhibition are aiming to reflect both on the thoughts, the processes and the outcome of the design and production of the artefact ‘Intermediate Fragment’ and making as a contemporary architectural tool in general.
Intermediate Fragment was made for the exhibition ‘Engaging Through Architecture’ in 2015 by Aarhus School of Architecture as a part of the Ventura Lambrate Milan Design Week, where it was exhibited under the name Concrete. The fundamental pool of techniques and knowledge that set the agenda for the fragment was established before the intentions of realising an exhibition object was conceived, but expanded, refined and concretised through this process.
The context of the work shown here is an interest in a tighter, deeper connection between experimentally obtained material knowledge and architectural design.