The Workshop | 2023

Graduate Thesis: University of Toronto.

Supervisor: John Shnier

The Workshop is an integral part of a material laboratory—a building that organically constructs itself through material prototypes. It is a tribute to the building craft and a call for architects to develop intimacy with the materials they often use. Envisioning a space reminiscent of a temple, it positions stone majestically as the protagonist in the narrative.
The drawing is inspired by field trips to stone processing facilities, where the stones exists in vast and spacious contexts, commanding respect and grandeur instilled by the power of the material.

This work is part of a year-long graduate research, tilteld Stone Portraits, that uses drawings as a method to investigate and iterate architectural ideas using allegorical narratives that are rooted in current and historical material research.

Field trips were conducted in Western Sicily visiting active and inactive Limestone quarries, Alentejo marble region in Portugal, and stone workshops in Ontario Canada.