Assi / Joseph MEIDAN
1987/Ongoing
Working between object, space, and material research. His practice focuses on transformation — observing how materials shaped by construction, use, and time can be redirected through minimal intervention.
His work often begins with situations encountered in everyday environments: construction sites, industrial components, or standardized building systems. Through processes of collection, assembly, and displacement, these elements are recontextualized without erasing their origin.
Moving between unique pieces and evolving systems, his projects explore the moment where functional structures shift into objects of domestic or spatial presence. Light, support, and construction recur as central themes, approached as ongoing investigations rather than fixed forms.
Alongside independent works, he develops Brut Hardware, a modular aluminum framework conceived as an open structure capable of adapting across furniture, exhibition, and architectural contexts.
Photo by Max Mindell
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06 GARDEN - COMME DES GARÇONS
DOC 051—061
YEAR: 2016
A large-scale installation conceived as an environment inviting continuous movement through space, equally activated during day and night. The project occupies approximately 1,000 m² and unfolds as a walkable landscape structured through reclaimed architectural elements and light.
The installation is built from glass façade panels recovered from a dismantled building and reassembled into a new spatial sequence. Lines of neon light, enclosed within protective plexiglass, connect the fragments and act simultaneously as structure, illumination, and orientation, guiding circulation across the space.
Some panels reveal an unexpected material ambiguity: composed of two layers of glass laminated with a silicone sheet, they behave almost like fabric, introducing flexibility and softness within an otherwise rigid system. Transparency, reflection, and diffusion continuously shift according to changing light conditions.
Through reuse and recomposition, façade elements originally designed as enclosure become spatial devices. The project transforms architectural remnants into an environment where structure, narrative, and atmosphere emerge through light and assembly.
The installation is built from glass façade panels recovered from a dismantled building and reassembled into a new spatial sequence. Lines of neon light, enclosed within protective plexiglass, connect the fragments and act simultaneously as structure, illumination, and orientation, guiding circulation across the space.
Some panels reveal an unexpected material ambiguity: composed of two layers of glass laminated with a silicone sheet, they behave almost like fabric, introducing flexibility and softness within an otherwise rigid system. Transparency, reflection, and diffusion continuously shift according to changing light conditions.
Through reuse and recomposition, façade elements originally designed as enclosure become spatial devices. The project transforms architectural remnants into an environment where structure, narrative, and atmosphere emerge through light and assembly.
