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.

Bex.e.browne@icloud.com
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05 Elisa and the 11 Swans

Image by Joakim Züger

Finalist for CHART Art Fair 22

Project completed in collaboration with Jack O’Hagan with the kind support from Alice Miller, Kristian Pederson, Bodil Eiterstraum, Gerda Levin, Rasmus Dale and Xan Browne, who assisted with assembling the pavilion.

Elisa and the 11 swans translates Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Wild Swans, into an architectural pavilion that sparks curiosity about the origins and stories of biomaterials in Denmark.

The story is one of a determined protagonist who much knit 11 nettle fibre jumbers to release her brothers from a spell returning them from swan to human. Through the act of sharing stories about the origins and entanglements of materials within their natural, cultural, and economic landscapes we are more easily able to value the material itself and further understand the human impacts on these landscapes to ensure a more symbiotic and less exploitative relationship with nature.

After CHART Art Fair, we returned to Aarhus and reassembled it for OPEN23 Festival at Aarhus School of Architecture. Following this it was reassembled again outside the Danish Architecture Centre for 4 months as seating.

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