Interior Matter
About
This platform is focused on the matter that our interiors are made from. The performance, pragmatic and poetic qualities of materials will be explored to demonstrate how their careful selection and assembly affects the spaces we inhabit. How materials create and communicate the character of a place. How the tangible informs the intangible.
This platform asserts that materials offer some of the greatest opportunities for creativity and innovation within interior design, and a deep understanding of materials, craft and technology allows us to deliver those elusive characteristics. Ultimately, it is through the use and manipulation of matter that our designs will be realised.
Re-using two railway arches within Coal Drops Yards, Kings Cross, this years project ‘Carbon drops’ is focussed on understanding, analysing and reducing the embodied carbon of interior design schemes.
‘Embodied carbon’ represents a building’s upfront CO2 emissions. And as we must rapidly reduce emissions to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis this project takes the position that embodied carbon is the single most important measure of sustainability. Platform members will take embodied carbon minimisation as a critical strategy in their thesis projects and use it as a driver of designs. This of course must be done while creating spaces that are beautiful, functional and allow people to flourish.
Ian Hunter
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