PALMATE

Palmate: an adjective that describes something resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

Our conceptualization process appropriates the human hand in the construction of imagined inhabitable space; Palmate contemplates the static nature of architecture and transforms it into an organism of its own. Through abstraction, the resulting form becomes a hyperbolic amalgamation reflecting the contingencies in the human form. This consolidated structure is then aggregated based on a series of points inspired by the connections of the hand. Based on this link, Palmate aims to conjure ideas of intimacy in our relationship with the interior spaces we inhabit. Through this process, we use the form of a human hand as a building block to explore new ways of creating space.

Palmate’s appropriation of human hands results in the creation of an anthropomorphic space that is living in tandem with its inhabitants. Like their human counterparts, these living forms have their own life cycles and will eventually decay until only a frame of its structure is left behind.