Poplar Resonance – Acoustics

This project presents the investigation and proposition of acoustic tectonics in architecture. The study is focused on Poplar wood in decay, where visual, structural, and sound characteristics are analyzed and discovered through material studies, prototype studies, computational studies and measurement studies.

The research findings have both philosophical and practical consequences for how tectonics can be understood and developed in future studies and practices, by a focus on transformational and temporal acting forces, leading to a continuous revealing, and therefore a persistent and dynamic tectonic articulation. This position is argued to open novel pathways for tectonics as an approach that engage with material and environmental agency and uncertainty, which in turn empowers architecture to address urgent questions of material scarcity and material-climatic relations.