Original Skin Machine archive plates published
Projects / architectural research
How we live.
What we build.
Research into food, water and cultivated materials, alongside landscape drawings, installations and methods for studying public space.Browse the projects
Food · water · materials · public spaceFood Park
A study connecting homes, food spaces and public life, with an interactive planner to explore which food programmes might suit a place.
Resilient Metropoles
A coastal city study connecting development decisions, water movement and urban growth through models and physical water tests.
Skin Machine
Twenty-five original plates document condition tests, composites, scaffolds, shrinkage, kinetic frames, inflation, stitching and an unbuilt cellulose-growing system.
Public Experiments
A postcard campaign account, a printable seating survey and ideas for local fieldwork.
Drawings & material studies
From landscape to installation.
Project / Carole El Danaf / Individual final-year work / LAU
Hinterland
Markets, classrooms and cultivation woven into the terraces of Mount Lebanon.
Project / Carole El Danaf with the METAXIS research group / AADRL
METAXIS
A human-scale tape installation exploring how material networks form space.
Project referencesSources, full credits and related tools+
Publication record
- 001 / Food Park
- Research study / Published research note. Complete project credit: Anindita Shrivastava. Research material: A neighbourhood study and an interactive food-space planner. Focus: Growing, sharing, cooking and composting are treated as one civic spatial system. Published material: Spatial framework published; Working browser planner; Sources and research limits. Related materials: Neighbourhood framework + Food Space Planner.
- 002 / Resilient Metropoles
- Research study / Published territorial study. Complete project credit: Ashwin Rajendran, Nishtha Gupta and Sidharth Tayal. Research material: Six original project figures and a source-linked public studio presentation. Focus: Public investment, developer behaviour, water movement and spatial form are framed as one metropolitan relationship. Published material: Six original project figures; Economic model and physical water tests; Public presentation source; Full research-team credits. Related materials: Six-part simulation and water-testing sequence.
- 003 / Skin Machine
- Research study / Material research atlas. Complete project credit: Arya Gupta, Hemant Jindal, Muna Abbas and Zeinab Muneam. Research material: Twenty-five original plates across five experiment families. Focus: Drying, deformation and failure become active fabrication decisions. Published material: Twenty-five original project plates; Five experiment families; Open protocol and failure atlas. Related materials: 25-plate Material Failure Atlas.
- 004 / Public Experiments
- Public-practice method / Fieldwork guides and campaign account. Complete project credit: Field Assembly. Research material: A printable survey pack with guidance on keeping records. Focus: Public action is documented through question, encounter, response and consequence. Published material: Print-ready public action pack; Browser field-sheet builder; Sourced field-question register. Related materials: Take a Seat pack + Field Kit.
Three practical tools
Use the methods in your own work.
Field Kit, Food Space Planner and the Take a Seat action pack turn questions into plans, actions and records.
Open the tools index ↗Current publication record / materials and evidence
What you can inspect now.
Research material, tools and sources available in this edition.
Groups of material experiments
Working browser tools: Food Space Planner + Field Kit
Print-ready Take a Seat field-action pack
Background report on Navtlughi Silo
Source-linked person records across research, practice and awards
Field-action protocol for recording artefacts and public response
Page summary
In brief
What can I explore here?
Explore architectural studies, material experiments and guides for local fieldwork.
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