Alison Brooks Architects exhibit at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition responds to the theme of ‘Freespace’ by addressing the subject of housing and urban dwelling. The exhibit opened in May 2018 and runs until the end of November.

ReCasting simulates the critical freespaces of our work in housing as four inhabitable ‘totems’: Threshold, Inhabited Edge, Passage, and Roofspace. The totems invite exploration, emerging from a unifying plinth to frame an amphitheatre and collective gathering space. Each totem offers a particular spatial, emotional and sensory experience, harnessing the Corderie’s specific qualities of light and volume. It has been this installation’s mission to reveal housing architecture’s civic role and its potential for meaningful, subjective experience.

ReCasting communicates mystery and delight: mirrored surfaces, organic geometries and forced perspective create a series of expansive illusions. Together, the totems, plinth and amphitheatre cast an informal stage for gathering and looking outward.