ARCH–ATM–GIG
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Gigon/Guyer
Material Intelligence
Surface acting as spatial structure
ARCH–ATM–GIG
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Surface acting as spatial structure
Gigon/Guyer
ARCH–ATM–GIG
Surface acting as spatial structure
Index Code:
ARCH–ATM–GIG
Orgin:
Field Notes:
Color tuning atmosphere • Façade mediating landscape • Interiors held in clarity
Defining Moment:
The Kirchner Museum established their method — color, cladding, and daylight organizing how a building sits in landscape and registers in space.

Gigon/Guyer

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1990s–present
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gee-gon guy-er

Gigon/Guyer’s work forms a world of calibrated atmosphere — space tuned through light, color, and measured enclosure.

Light casts controlled gradients across surfaces.

Planes appear subdued yet precise.

Rooms unfold through tonal progression.

Edges align with structural rhythm.Volume holds an even, calm presence.

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Color becomes spatial structure.

Structural Focus

Non-Assertive Presence

The work avoids dominance or spectacle. It integrates quietly into space, allowing perception to settle rather than be directed.

In Gigon/Guyer’s work, this approach appears where architecture frames landscape through calibrated restraint.

Position

Non-Assertive Presence

The work avoids dominance or spectacle. It integrates quietly into space, allowing perception to settle rather than be directed.

In Gigon/Guyer’s work, this approach appears where architecture frames landscape through calibrated restraint.
Chromatic Fields
Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Atmosphere
Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.
Material
Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.
Proportion
Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.
Architecture
Form organizes space through structure, proportion, and material decision.
Material Modernism
Modern form is grounded in material behavior and construction.
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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

By Structural Focus

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
Lacaton & Vassal
Surface acting as spatial structure.
Saburo Murakami
Performance as structure

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