Over time and across various cultures, the use of the tile in the roof has often been limited to construction systems with seemingly static, predictable, and flat organizational principles. This project designed by BASE, explores new spatial and formal repertoires that reimagine and enhance the usage and possibilities of traditional materials by means of global contemporary design methods.
In an almost sculptural fashion, the fragile ceramic elements suspended in a light-cable ceiling reveal the inherent capacity of its concave nature to constitute geometrically complex structures. Therefore, the system’s organization obeys an intuitive-like behavior among the parts: distance, weight, gravity, and physical stress, as well as the logic of mass proliferation and coordinated replicability. In that sense, the Chilean studio‘s proposal establishes a particular application within the several variations that the system allows. A design that invites people to create semi-open common spaces, making it essentially a social enabler that allows for inclusiveness and spatial generosity.
In the context of the Biennale di Venezia 2021, Flocking Tejas aims to trigger questions and evoke images and speculation about the spatial, social, identitarian potential of architecture, and local materials.
