NOTES ON MATERIALITY, TEMPORALITY, AND

American building culture is readily available, easy to consume and digest — predicated on fastness and cheapness, but with little regard to buildings’ lifespans. What if everyday materials merge with conventional building techniques to produce a familiar-yet-unfamiliar material expression for an architecture that embraces, rather than deceives, its lifespan? This project questions the simultaneous role of everyday materiality, architectural temporality, and the domestic interior in an age of material excess. Using paper pulp and cardboard, the project proposes a material and temporal language — one that relies on artifice as a means of performance — for an architecture of living/consuming.