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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04 Inventory of Imperfections

Semester 7 Project
Sep 21 - Jan 22
Tutor: Chris Thurlbourne
School: Aarhus School of Architecture

This project is an investigation into imperfections and weaknesses from the scale of a singular material to an architectural space. An intervention in a fire damaged building is the outcome from testing a design methodology developed through the 1:1 material exploration of waste pine planks to explore how we design by centering and celebrating the existing imperfections. Documenting, analysing, understanding, and extracting are the main actions to enable the designer to discover the individual characteristics and qualities of the imperfections before explorations into how small manipulations can result in the celebration of it. The imperfections become visual memories and the new can only exist through the strengthening of a weakness. The project was particuarly inspired by the textiles visible mending movement and how it could translate to architecture as a possibility for re-use rather than building new.

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