Working from objects, to things, to gatherings, a series of interface buildings explore architecture as engaged and entangled with its environment.

By examining the cultural histories of the plants, animals, objects, and artefacts Countryside [Inside] Architecture aims to disturb and reactivate the interior as a space in dialogue with the world. Working from objects, to things, to gatherings it explores the affective capacity of familiar objects made strange, and strange objects made familiar. Objects discovered in houses, museums, galleries and gardens, objects associated with travel, migration, colonization, cultivation, and objects internalised through curated collections, are re-drawn and re-framed. They are imbued with transformative potential, enabling a “conceiving otherwise” (after Segalen) which facilitates a shift from the (interior) world of knowledge systems to the (exterior) world of material things. As complex ‘Things’ they become critical tools, unpacking systems of knowledge and sociality. Through proposals for various ‘interface buildings’ – buildings working at the junction of interior and exterior conditions – the studio explores how making spaces, buildings, and landscapes for these ‘Things’ means simultaneously re-making these systems.