Work: Architectural Research & Design
Location: Toronto
Contemporary urban life increasingly relies on cognitive, spatial and technological forms of protection that reshape how we relate to one another and our surroundings. Drawing on Georg Simmel’s The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903) and Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres Volume III: Foam (2011), this project examines how modern cities encourage self-protection, efficiency and social separation. As our environments become more technologically mediated, homes and buildings function as “spatial immune systems,” reinforcing the divide between “safe” interiors and “invasive” exteriors.
Rather than accepting this trajectory of isolation, the project explores how architecture can restore instinctive, corporeal connections with the environment and with one another. Rubber is used as the primary material for its tactile, responsive qualities, acting as an interface that challenges conventional boundaries of floor, wall and roof. Through touch and environmental responsiveness, the material encourages curiosity, play and sociability within corporate urban settings. The resulting experience may be playful, uncomfortable or sublime; yet in all instances you are aware of the moment, as your body and senses become engaged.
Location: Toronto
Contemporary urban life increasingly relies on cognitive, spatial and technological forms of protection that reshape how we relate to one another and our surroundings. Drawing on Georg Simmel’s The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903) and Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres Volume III: Foam (2011), this project examines how modern cities encourage self-protection, efficiency and social separation. As our environments become more technologically mediated, homes and buildings function as “spatial immune systems,” reinforcing the divide between “safe” interiors and “invasive” exteriors.
Rather than accepting this trajectory of isolation, the project explores how architecture can restore instinctive, corporeal connections with the environment and with one another. Rubber is used as the primary material for its tactile, responsive qualities, acting as an interface that challenges conventional boundaries of floor, wall and roof. Through touch and environmental responsiveness, the material encourages curiosity, play and sociability within corporate urban settings. The resulting experience may be playful, uncomfortable or sublime; yet in all instances you are aware of the moment, as your body and senses become engaged.
