concept & vision

STACK / CUT is a vast study that begins with set parameters. Part discovery, part reflection and rumination on the way we worked till now—why and how we do what we do—this conceptual study aims to investigate and record all variations within those given parameters, and in doing so to create the imaginary landscape that our past and future projects inhabit, each one a precise selection, extracted from its larger family and logic, and frozen in its specific configuration

design & architecture

STACK/CUT starts as a process of self-awareness to analyze how we have - over the past 25 years - instinctively related to the ISO shipping container as a volumetric and spatial object, and how we have enacted the 2 primary operations through which we modify it (or them) to create volumes and spaces - the 2 primary objectives of architecture

impact & significance

STACK / CUT is LOT-EK’s alphabet, dictionary, encyclopedia, but also LOT-EK’s catalog. Totally conceptual yet instrumental to the practice, the project is abstract and applicable at once, a real compendium, an index or a manual for the work done and the one to come