NIKOLAI AARRE
Frank, 2021
In architecture, we often look for elaborateness of form and rarity of raw ingredients. This project proposes an alternative view, in which all materials are beautiful if treated with respect and attention to the detail.
Six columns, seemingly the same. Medical glass tubes and acrylic on polystyrene cubes. Look closer though. The pedestals have been cut with precision, so the acrylic bases slot in elegantly. The industrial plugs vary in shape and colour, like toys. This is not random. They are playful, but the colours are also industrial code for their material qualities. The plugs have been placed by hand in the tubes, because each varies minutely in shape. The differing width of the tubes determines their luminescence. They can be gently moved, making the columns both strong and fragile at the same time. The transparency makes the construction readable, the joints visible.
300 x 1550 mm, pedestal 400 x 400 mm, glass, acrylic, rubber, silicone, nylon, aluminium, polystyrene
Photography by Olga Sosnowska