OBS-ART-052
Agostino Bonalumi — Surface as Volume
Surface as Volume
OBS-ART-052
Material Intelligence
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relief • tension • surface

Surface as Volume

Agostino Bonalumi — Surface as Volume

Thickness emerges from the plane.

Depth returns.

Volume holds.

How does depth return?

Surface is often flat, yet thickness emerges.

Depth reappears without illusion.

What continues is volume carried by plane.

Structural Concepts

Material Intelligence
Material behavior actively determines structural and formal decisions.
Volume
The three-dimensional space occupied or enclosed by form.
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