Core is an installation for b Store by Luke Pearson and Tom Finch, collectively Medway.

The Core installation revolves around a propositional architecture within a one-way mirrored box, which exists as a comparison between the social naivety of sweeping architectural visions of the early and mid twentieth century and worlds that exist in the imaginary. Having trained as architects we seek to question how a professional barrier exists which deems the architect’s vision real but architectures manifested through fiction flights of fantasy. The Core installation at b Store seeks to transfer methods of interpretation into different scales of response and intervention, from pieces which exist both as furniture but also scale drawings of propositional spaces, to a surfaces based on systems of syntax and interpretation.

Installation comprises the Core model which sits on the Savile Row frontage of the shop, and is flanked on all sides by a temporary recladding of the shop’s raised floor in a series of tiles developed from typographic layout drawings. Throughout the space, constructional drawings from both of these pieces are hung and displayed. Secreted within shelves miniature “workshop” spaces show the Core in various states of construction.

The negotiation between scales and spaces represents the conversational method of design, highlighting the shop as a place of trade and community, while across the cycle of a day, the one-way mirrored box lends the Core a temporal existence, as a glowing series of reflections by night and an opaque monolith by day.