Material Agency explores how new material possibilities emerge when silicate materials enter relationships they have not traditionally occupied. Rather than accepting established functions, the investigations ask how ceramics can interact with light, sound, water, structure and perception to reveal capabilities that remain hidden within conventional applications.
The focus is not simply on inventing new materials, but on reorganising relationships between material behaviour, geometry and environment. Through experimentation, ceramics become translucent interfaces, acoustic systems, structural components and environmental mediators that challenge familiar distinctions between object, material and architecture.
Together, these investigations explore how specific material possibilities emerge when familiar relationships between materials, geometry and environment are reorganised.
Translucent Interface
Material ↔ Light & Sound
Revealing new material possibilities by bringing ceramics into dialogue with light, sound and architectural space.
NOBASITUS
Expanded Perlite ↔ Urban System & Sound
Developing expanded perlite composites as adaptive architectural systems for reducing urban noise pollution.
ADESSYS
Material ↔ Sound
Expanding the acoustic role of ceramics through architectural systems that transform sound into a material design parameter.
Water feature
Material ↔ Water
Expanding the architectural role of ceramics by transforming water into a material, environmental and spatial design parameter.