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SPACEPLATES

Building by Nature – at the Intersection of Art, Architecture and Engineering

 

Anne Romme, Ion Sørvin & Anne Bagger

 

What does it mean to build sustainably today? To create frameworks for life—not only with a focus on performance and function, but also with consideration for materials, ecosystems, methods of production, and social relations?

 

This book explores one possible answer to that question through the project SPACEPLATES: a collaboration between architect Anne Romme, engineer Anne Bagger, and the artist group N55 / Ion Sørvin.

 

At the core of the project lies a fascination with geometry as a tool for understanding and shaping the physical world. Through ongoing processes of design, modelling, prototyping, and construction, the authors have developed a building system based on faceted shell geometries.

 

Inspired by natural forms such as the sea urchin, and by theoretical perspectives ranging from Ture Wester to Buckminster Fuller, the system reinterprets what structures can be: materially efficient, formally expressive, economically accessible, and practically realizable.

 

The book documents a collaboration across disciplines and across scales—from workshop models to inhabitable structures that today serve as greenhouses, observatories, underwater laboratories, and shelters.

 

The book is divided into three parts:

1.An essay tracing the nearly twenty-year development of the SPACEPLATES project.

2. A presentation of the realized works.

3. A series of shorter texts addressing the practical and technical aspects of the project.

 

24 × 27 cm, 288 pages

English text

ISBN: 978-87-92700-57-5