Constructs

I have been fascinated for long in the parapharnelia that are used to bring up buildings: Structures that emerge before those that we come to inhabit. A completely different series of bodies occupy it before us, quite differently than us. Giving the appearances of the infrastructures of very buildings, these are however only temporary, and come together in new configurations all the time depending on site conditions. Such built envelopes enable a building to finally take shape. They are transparent, porous, minimal, elegant, functional and crisp. Often, the buildings that they are built for fail to imbibe these characterists - becoming closed, heavy, cumbersome and frivilous. 

We read them as lines - those that provide datum to perceiving the incomplete monster. Somehow, the scaffold is always complete, irrespective of the growing body behind. It scales the structure, offers a metric, graphs the canvas and inscribes the body of labour within. The strategy of the scaffold as the building is used in the city during several occasions including festivals, rallies, exhibitions, and so on. Yet, so much of it fails to register itself as building. If only one could reverse the process where buildings could dismantle themselves to leave behind the scaffold for us to inhabit; an architecture that becomes in the erasure of the other. What geometries do we employ to realize such space? How do we imagine this process?