Support Structure combines graphic art and architectural elements to create a social structure. SMET is interested in how architectural interventions in existing buildings and spatial design can make private and public spaces accessible to a group or community that previously had no access to these places.

The design of buildings and the layout of public space reflect a value system and are always ideologically charged. A building can serve to increase individual comfort. A spatial layout can serve to accelerate economic traffic. In SMET's practice, they ask the question: how can a building or a spatial intervention propose a different value system, one based on solidarity and community?

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Developed during the SMET residency at Voorheen de Gemeente, Leeuwarden. as part of the groupshow Gemeente Goed at Podium Explore, Leeuwarden. An exhibition and public program about the public environment – the ‘goods’ that belong to every resident, in both urban and rural areas. How do the residents of Friesland live together, and how do they share the space to live, both now and in the future?

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Curated by: Koen Bartijn

Year: 2024