Over the last 11 years I have collaborated with Matthias Hollwich on hundreds of building designs. This year we retroactively analysed the proudest examples of our work and distilled them down to their essential forms in a fictitious gallery setting.
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In the process we realized that we at HWKN employ architectural form to create something more powerful than rational architecture and more performative than formal sculpture, which we call Purposeful Beings.
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More than an inert assembly of constituent building materials, a Purposeful Being grows from a core programmatic intention that resonates throughout its form in a unique physical expression that shapes its user’s actions, and defines its own identity.
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They attract, welcome, engage, lead, and celebrate everyone who comes in contact with them, as active participants in the world.
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