Plasma Studio

Plasma is a leading emergent architecture and design practices with worldwide scope and outlook. The studio is working on all scales from furniture and installations to urbanism and master planning. The term Plasma comes from Classic Greek and means modeling, form, fabric, imagination, fiction. In Physics the Plasma State- or fourth state of matter- describes a unique condition of matter arising at a complex overlay of external forces. Plasma, a charged field of particles, conducts energy. Folding space into space, Plasma draw landscapes into buildings, streets into facades, inside to outside. Transformative tectonics set spaces, planes and bodies into unforeseen relationships that challenge conventional topographies and spatial codes. Strategic reasoning and the desire to produce specificity in place of generics drive tectonic form. Plasma are unconcerned with the creation of a visual ‘style’, transcending architectural photogenics and, informed by a rich dialogue with philosophical and social theory, they pursue the social in its quotidian and experiential aspects. They venture that the construction of topographic dialogues ‘may enable and potentialize new and different forms of social interaction’. These topographic dialogues are enacted by an architecture of trajectory and momentum, which responds to the nature of the topographies and the possibilities of engagement. Plasma Studio Partners: Eva Castro, Holger Kehne, Ulla Hell, Chuan Wang