Architecture Fringe 2025
Reciprocity

Proto-architectural Regenerative Material Models

07 Jun—22 June (16 dates)

Edinburgh & The Lothians Exhibition Research & Design

Event Summary

Exhibition of prototypes, recipes, moulds, and mixes of earth, fiber, and wood architectural assemblies at George Brown & Sons, Leith.

Time

Saturdays & Sundays 11:00 - 18:00 Mondays - Fridays 11:00 - 18:00

Date(s)

07 Jun—22 June

Location

George Brown & Sons Engineering Works Shore, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6QS
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Organiser

Lisa Moffitt

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This exhibition includes four material studies that sit somewhere between architectural fragments and sculptural objects. Without scale, spatial purpose, or weathering responsibilities, the objects focus attention instead on ‘what if?’ regenerative material combinatorial possibilities. The artefacts were constructed from traditional recipes for earth and fiber construction that were hand-mixed and manually compacted into custom-made wooden formworks. Each object includes an element of earth construction combined with other natural materials including hempcrete, wood, and thatch.

Building on analogies between earth construction and culinary processes, the exhibition includes ‘recipes’ for each object—ingredients and mixes based on established specifications for mass, light, framed, or rammed earth. Moulds, implements for tamping, and constituent raw materials are also on display. Constructed with care from modest, heterogeneous, local materials, the objects revalue natural material systems, which are readily available and sensorially rich but have largely been supplanted in contemporary construction by high carbon, homogenous materials dependent on global supply chains.

Lisa Moffitt is an Associate Professor in Architecture and Associate Director of Graduate Programs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is spending her sabbatical year 2024-2025 as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA). Lisa’s research explores models as both physical artefacts and mental ideals. Her work asks how models of environmental processes and material systems—ranging from airflow to firespread to regenerative material assembles—enable trans-scalar design engagement while also suggesting ideals and aspirations for our collective future amidst the climate crisis.

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