screw it: rethinking architecture

WHAT IF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE IS THE ONE WE NEVER SEE? SCREW IT REIMAGINES THE OVERLOOKED—THE TINY, THE MUNDANE, THE INVISIBLE—AND LIFTS IT INTO FOCUS. USING A HYPER-EXPLODED DRAWING OF BRIDGE CITY, THIS PROJECT ZOOMS PAST THE GRAND GESTURES AND INTO THE HIDDEN JOINTS THAT MAKE THEM POSSIBLE.

IN A WORLD WHERE ARCHITECTURE IS MEASURED BY FORM AND FACADE, THE SCREW GOES UNNOTICED—TOO SMALL TO MODEL, TOO COMMON TO ADMIRE. BUT WITHOUT IT, NOTHING HOLDS. SCALE, IN ARCHITECTURE, DETERMINES IMPORTANCE—AND THIS IS WHERE THE IDEA BEGAN. WHAT IF CHANGING THE SCALE COULD CHANGE THE WAY WE VALUE SOMETHING?

A CNC-MILLED GIANT SCREW—PLACED AMONG ITS REAL-LIFE COUNTERPARTS—BECOMES A SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE. AN INVITATION TO LOOK CLOSER, TO RECONSIDER WHAT WE USUALLY OVERLOOK. SCREW IT IS A PROJECT ABOUT SCALE, DETAIL, AND EXPERIMENTATION—AND ASKS: IS ARCHITECTURE THE FORMS WE CELEBRATE, OR THE MECHANISMS THAT MAKE THEM POSSIBLE?