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Assembly Zero 1: Reconstruction Of Fragments

Name

Lim Xuan Xuan Rachel

Institution

LASALLE College of the Arts

Assembly Zero 1 explores architecture as an act of assembly, investigating how fragmented materials and components can be translated into spatial form. Using collage as a form-finding methodology, fragmented geometries and weapon components were organised through principles drawn from weapons, such as direction, thrust, and axis, to generate architectural form. The project is guided by the narrative of a weaponsmith who crafts objects from discarded materials. His process of collecting, sorting, fabricating, and displaying crafted works informed the spatial organisation of the architecture, which is structured into three stages: Feed, Forge, and Release. These stages trace the journey from material and request intake, to fabrication, and finally to retreat, observation, display, and collection. The architecture explores a tension between chaos and control. While the exterior appears fragmented and assembled from disparate parts, the interior is organised through a precise and systematic workflow that reflects the weaponsmith's method of making. Through narrative, collage, and assembly, the project reimagines architecture as a process of constructing meaning from fragments, where making becomes both a spatial and architectural language.

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