Materialism

In this age of masterful departures from the historic materials, new and innovative discussions about design are promoted through the dialogues created by the fabrication of new materials. The photo is three dimensional representation of the pixels taken from a photo of the tree canopy at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The image has been used in copper to transform an otherwise mundane metal into a texture which arrests the eye.
It is a new avenue for designers to explore both the materials and the way traditional cladding has been used and proposed new applications and forms with these new applications.  If their is anything characteristic about our current crop of new buildings it is the exploration of materiality as an expression of architecture.