 is a mass of interpenetrating space frames, rectangular volumes delineated by their edges of thin steel reinforcing mesh - the invisible skeleton of concrete architecture. This is, perhaps, the most abstract possible means of rendering the built environment, and the most minimal.

 as an object is a kind of ghostly diagram - another drawing in space, this time resolutely rectilinear. The rectangular void at its core represents a ‘unit of habitation’: the average dimensions of a European bedroom constructed today. Frames of increasing volume surround and encompass the void, describing it by touching its edges. Together, in their repetition and extension of a simple form, the frames read as an indeterminate, amorphous aggregation; their individual space and transparency become condensed, almost impenetrable visually. On the long axis of the gallery, suspended as if weightless, just above head height, rising and expanding from its flattish base like a thundercloud, 

 again confounds the eye: what is foreground, what mid-ground, what furthest distant? If building is, in essence, about confinement, imposing limits on space, 

 uses architecture’s means and materials to make manifest a measureless, indefinable, shifting form, imaginatively without dimensions, like the infinite extension of the mind.

Martin Caiger Smith, excerpt from the exhibition catalogue 

 Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2019, p.114.

, 2014, carbon and casein on paper, 14.3 x 19.4cm

 2019, architectural model for installation

Design and engineering iteration process 

 2019, 6 mm mild steel reinforcing mesh, 710 × 930 × 1515 cm. Construction of the core section at Vale Royal Studios, London.

 2019, 6 mm mild steel reinforcing mesh, 710 × 930 × 1515 cm. Construction of the core section at Vale Royal Studios, London

 2019, 6 mm mild steel reinforcing mesh, 710 × 930 × 1515 cm. Transportation of the core section at Vale Royal Studios to the Royal Academy, London.

Rigging and structural work in progress at the Royal Academy, London. 

 2019, 6 mm mild steel reinforcing mesh, 710 × 930 × 1515 cm. Installation in progress at the Royal Academy, London. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

Rigging work for lifting the work off the ground at the Royal Academy, London. 

Adjusting loading points at the Royal Academy, London. 

, 2019, 6 mm mild steel reinforcing mesh, 710 × 930 × 1515 cm. Installation view, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photograph by Oak Taylor-Smith.

Matrix, Royal Academy of Arts, London

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