Róisín Heneghan, Shih-Fu Peng
The premise begins by taking a “reactionary” posture against predictable techniques employed by architects to make “things”, namely, the senses, with the visual dominating.
Therefore, the translucent stone is ignored in totality as it is at the core of architectural technique, visibility.
We look at geometry but invisible geometry; note, regulating geometry/lines such as proportioning systems i.e. golden rectangle, we consider visible.
The Vierendeel truss is an architect’s solution to an engineering problem; our proposal exposes the invisible forces behind the facade, a segmented Vierendeel truss.
Heneghan Peng Architects