Planted Scaffolding deals with the manipulation of a set of materials that grow and translate into a new language of built materials, and could be converted into the real world by a structural building process that could be "planted" anywhere and at any scale.
How do we translate a material study into our built environment? Planted Scaffolding began with the development of a material study, the reaction of foam and rubber together, which evolved through evaluation of time, pressure, and fluidity of the material. Through this study, one saw that these material interactions, over time, could give a collection of materials that ranged from structural, flexible, and transparent, according to how much the foam grew and how the materials mixed together. This was translated into the real world by creating an installation that could be applied through a robotic process that pulled the facade from the ground up across a facade, eventually making a draping structure that could mimic the building front. This scaffolding would protect the building's front and the people that walk below while helping to hold the structure of the building below.
Critics: Jacob Bekermus
