ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Manferdini investigates the concept of what she describes as a ‘Gulliver’s travel’, playing with proportions and creating dimensional paradoxes. A house that is smaller than a person or a coffee maker that is as large as a church cupola reveal the persistence of the fascination with the miniaturization of architecture and the exaggerated scale of the object. Her work investigates these paradoxes in objects, bodywear, architectural drawings and models, built spaces and interiors that all reside in this constant questioning of the human scale and the spaces to be occupied and the envelopes and environments that enclose that body. Punctuating the chapter are a series of projects that explore strategies for developing scalar changes when applied to a range of interior elements and objects. Her interest in optical effects that explore material properties and the power of digital computation and fabrication blazes new paths for inventive directions in craft and fabrication.
