"I was a member of the Bucky lab During Fall semester 2011. I was originally studying in Southern California Institute of Architecture and exchanged to TU Delft. My stay in the Bucky lab is a wonderful experience in my academic life. It was quite a different atmosphere from Bucky lab than Sci-arc culture.
In west United States, especially in Sci-Arc, Academic Architecture emphasizes
ideology, morphology and realized those in digital world. Meanwhile, Buck Lab
offers a solid ground, from material to product, from nuts to bolts, for a
practical architect to stand on. I believe the Bucky Lab provides what is
missing in American School.
After my graduation, the Bucky Lab influence had strongly
interested me to practice architecture in real world, because I believe the
concept of architecture can't be practice properly without exercising
fabrication. Since architecture project is not always enter construction phase,
I choose making physical model as my own way to emphasis how the materiality,
fabrication and tectonic can influence the design. Although introducing 3D
model has greatly replace the handcraft model, I will still see crafting physical
model as a critical bridge between fantasy and reality.
My thesis showed great influence from my European
experience. It is an argument on Le corbusier's "The house is a machine
for living in." While admitting the existence of machines in modern
architecture, my thesis argues that the house could express the beauty of
machine by transform itself as the extension of machines. In this thesis, many
kinds of fabrication techniques are applied in physical model and those models
turn out to be great contributions to convince the theory."