Field Station Studio: Architecture & Platforms

Recently, the notion of platforms has taken on different meanings through the increasing digitization of many areas within society: from production and commerce, over media, science, culture and politics. Field Station will present their collective work on the notion of platforms in architecture. The studio explored a wide range of ideas, possibilities and frictions related to platforms as a spatial metaphor, a structural system, an architectural typology, an interface where data space and physical space intersect, as a modus operandi, a model for novel architectural entrepreneurship, or as a site for counter cultural resistance. DING, the extension of the Design Museum Ghent, functioned as means to confront these concepts with a concrete situation. Confronting the site and project with a specific perspective and considering several aspects (the site and existing buildings, its position within the context of Ghent, the ongoing competition, program and function, the ambition to become a third space), resulted in a series of architectural reflections and propositions.

Field Station Studio is an ongoing Architectural Design Office and Master Studio at the Departement Architectuur - KU Leuven (https://architectuur.kuleuven.be/departementarchitectuur)

The studio is led by Michiel Helbig and  Corneel Cannaerts, the exhibition shows work of Jari Jacquet, Damita Jansens, Lina Chen, Wu-Lung Lu, Briek Haemerlinck, Orin Torati,Emilie Enné Lykkegaard, Helene Hmittou, Wolf Vandekerckhove, Anne Sofie Ravnsbæk Geertsen, Natan Van Laethem, Marie Vandewalle, AleksandraLiwa, Justin Dirkx, Thomas Rasker, Vincent Vergote

Field Station Studio part of the international network Fieldstations e.V. (http://fieldstations.net/)