AL_A Super Surface | Amanda Levette

Many “late” postmodern architects, were the ones who started experimenting with morphing. A new approach technique, trying to mimic gestures and other elements, blending them into something natural and fluid, within the emergence of new digital techniques and software.

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Years later, these techniques are already quite useful resource in finding solutions for architectural space, due to the relative ease of achieving impressive effects by “programing” them in a digital environment. Allied to the digitial improvement and the a growing and rapid material innovation, then we arrive at solutions like ‘CORIAN ® super-surfaces’, a project created by AL_A (Amanda Levette Architects).

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CORIAN ® super-surfaces’ is a conceptual interpretation of the lounge as a dynamic space of transition between different spaces, such spaces are neutral and active. Starting from the ground this surface extrudes and mixes to create elements that will morph with the CORIAN ® structure.

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Based on water movement after the fall of a liquid droplet on a surface and designed parametrically, this super surface is made with long strips of CORIAN ® that make various receptacles, as well as areas of seating, shelving and washing areas, also giving a sense motion in space. The CORIAN ® strips reveal and hide the space as we move through, protecting intimate spaces.

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This surface is broken with gaps between the strips, giving the whole structure a singular visual impact. The advanced digital technologies used by AL_A allowed the whole piece to be fully developed and fabricated, and to be fully understood in terms of structure liability and lighting.