Critic: Mario Gooden
In Collaboration With Alicia French
Rather than designing in terms of discrete rooms defined by planes, one may conceive of a domestic space as a framework for a series of interrelated events between which one can move freely. Inert spaces are minimized as one event-space moves seamlessly into another. The physical walls of the domestic space become organic and perforated, as these events spill out into the street. Likewise, events from the street may move into the domestic space, blurring the distinction between the two.
The edge is a barrier to activity and interaction. It is a definitive impediment to interchange between spaces, individuals, and states of being. At the urban scale, as well as that of the individual living space, this basic act of separation can produce a sense of alienation. In puncturing, folding, and otherwise manipulating the edge; a panoptic quality emerges, forcing the resident into an inherently voyeuristic social role. The individual can no longer function in isolation.
