15/08/2025
Encountering a building in its unfinished, raw state can be unexpectedly powerful.
Stripped of cladding, aesthetic smoothing, and programmatic clarity, architecture reveals itself not as a completed object, but as a process – a temporal condition between design and realization.
In this moment, the building steps forward in its structural honesty: materials speak directly, constructive logics become visible, and the structure appears as an open script rather than a finished narrative. Such an encounter eludes the familiar consumption of architecture as a static image or a perfected form. Instead, it demands projection, imagination, and a heightened awareness of the act of building itself.
Precisely in its incompleteness lies a certain generosity – a temporary openness that vanishes with the building’s completion and the supposed fixation of its meaning.
To encounter a building in the state of becoming is to witness architecture as it breathes: uncertain, vulnerable – and intensely alive. Woelk
