Studio Mode | modeLab

Through an open-ended and promiscuous design approach collaborations are manifest, intelligence is cross-pollinated, and new forms of thinking and doing are discovered...

Lab Entries

modeLab

modeLab is the collective research entity of Studio Mode. It is conceived of as an open-laboratory and serves as a knowledge base for design research and experimentation. The laboratory is distributed in nature and operates across multiple time-scales and locations ranging from intensive workshops to design studios throughout North America and Europe.

Threads

Threads is an attempt to develop design strategies from material-based protocols through a cross-platform examination of system path optimization.

Based in a history of material practice (Frei Otto’s form finding experiments and Antonio Gaudi’s catenary arches), these threads oscillate between analog and digital models of specific design thresholds with resulting optimizations and connective strategies analyzed for proto-architectural potentials.