Bex Browne

I am an architect currently based in Aarhus, Denmark, where I recently completed my master studies in the sustainability studio, Material Matters, at Aarhus School of Architecture.
Through my work I explore materials from landscape to built form, where the process driven projects aim to explore ways of designing in the midst of the climate crises. At a time where existing practices and material palettes should be critically challenged, the research based projects aspire to imagine alternative scenarios that consider entanglements across scales, times and perspectives as methods to discover ways of designing with responsibility and within ecological frameworks. This website acts as an archive of recent projects.

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03 Symphony of Salt

Semester 8 Project
Feb 22 - Jun 22
Tutor: Anders Kruse
School: Aarhus School of Architecture

This project explores how architecture can respond to its surrounding environment and existing natural weather systems over time. Working with the seasons and harsh weather conditions of Thyholm, Denmark, this research accumulates in a salt extraction museum crossing the boundary of land and water. The building explores the potential of salt and yarn, which transforms over time through the crystallisation and dissolving of salt, becoming a working part in the story the museum tells.

Salt is a mineral we are all familiar with, our bodies require it for our survival, it is a resource available through the world and this project hopes to explore how it could be used in a responsible way in the built environment. Utilising its natural qualities of crystallisation and solubility. The building is an extension of a visitor’s walk through the landscape, where they can learn about the saltdome situated underneath the peninsula and natural processes of salt extraction that are dependant on the conditions of the site. The investigations challenge the static, unadaptable spaces that we often experience, using layered facades which can be added to or taken away depending on the time of year and requirements for the interior space.

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