A STRIPES-BASED MATERIAL SYSTEM

UNIQUE RESEARCH: BUILDING COMPLEX FORMS AND STRUCTURES OUT OF PLANAR LINEAR STRIPES.

MARC FORNES, registered and practicing Architect DPLG, leads THEVERYMANY, a New York-based studio specializing in large-scale, site-specific structures that unify skin, support, form, and experience into a single system.

Over the last ten years, Marc has designed and built a number of organic, thin-shell constructions that push the limits of form, structure, and space. This body of work is situated between the fields of art and architecture, with particular focus in the realm of public art.

Each public artwork aims to provide a unique spatial experience for its visitors, while also contributing to the visual identity of a place and catalyzing community engagement.

This practice is propelled by Marc’s expertise in computational design. THEVERYMANY represents a body of research that continues to advance new parametric outcomes and implement complex techniques in architecture and beyond.

Each project evolves previous inquiries, and further investigates design though codes and computational protocols, addressing new ways to describe complex curvilinear self-supported surfaces into series of flat elements for efficient fabrication.

The work of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY may be described as ‘prototypical architectures’, in which ‘prototypical’ – an adjective – extends a logical suite that begins with the sample (a test of a precise element within a unit), building to the prototype (a unit or relationship between units) and from there up to the mock-up (a number of units set up and not assembled completely).

The premise of each project is based on precisely defined architectural concerns, such as structure, enclosure, porosity etc. Through a process of empirical and serial experiments in both computational descriptive geometry and material systems, development grows from the scale of a unit, to a system of units, to an entire project, where all of its nature is fully tested at 1:1 scale – including, most importantly, the pleasure of its spatial experience – with the potential for further scalability.

Adresse postale:
MARC FORNES, Architecte D.P.L.G.
3 Rue du Parc 67400 Strasbourg, France