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about

Vessel is an art and architecture project based in Aotearoa, New zealand with a global outlook. Its aim is to explore the ways in which architecture can merge with nature and heighten the human sensory experience.

Vessel was conceived as a medium for reimagining the relationship between humans and the natural world.


We are seeking to interweave craft, artistic practice and architecture to create spaces that aren’t restricted to one particular mode of thought, that can instead evolve into something new and fluid.

To rejoin human beings and the environment, to attempt to rewild ourselves, Vessel aims to dissolve the usual boundaries of living spaces that remove us from the sensory experience of nature, while simultaneously creating a sense of place for ritualising the everyday.

At its core, Vessel seeks to reawaken our sensitivity to the elements, so that we can transform the way we live within the natural world.

PHILOSOPHICAL COMMITMENTS

1

SCALE

A resolve to minimise the use of materials, to embrace small-scale and low-impact, with a cap of 30sm for size.

2

ENVIRONMENT

A dedication to protecting the surrounding ecosystem, the use of environmentally responsible and regenerative processes and native materials.

3

RESILIENCE

A focus on the importance of long-term durability and ease of repair and restoration in the future.

4

ADAPTABILITY

A belief in the value of movable structures and the need to think of human habitats as temporary within the permanence of the landscape.

5

INTERCONNECTION

Exploring human sensorial experience as a way to reframe and intensify our relationship with the natural world.

6

UTILITY

A focus on essential needs for living, and an appreciation of the value of usefulness.

7

INTERDISCIPLINARY

A recognition of the importance of plurality and the interwovenness of art, culture, architecture and nature.

8

EDITIONS

A commitment for each vessel commission to build on the previous structural explorations while creating something entirely different.

COMING DECEMBER 2024

STILL X CHESHIRE ARCHITECTS

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