Tuesday, March 2, 2010

What am I trying to do? - A thesis statement

This thesis seeks to create an architecture that blurs the boundary between interior and exterior revealing a both~and condition that provides a connection between the built and surrounding environmen in order to set up a dynamic continuum of interactions.

Within the architectural discipline are a variety of dichotomies or juxtapositions that are treated and discussed as binary entities.  Rather than accepting an architecture that conforms to the traditional sets of "either/or" conditions, this thesis seeks to create an architecture that blurs the boundary between interior and exterior revealing a both~and conditions that provides a connection between the built and surrounding environment in order to set up a dynamic continuum of interactions.  Our world has increasingly begun to operate where communities and interpersonal connections are formed outside of our physical infrastructure and architecture.  Current culture allows us to "occupy" multiple places simultaneously and we no longer need to be physically present to be involved.  As these boundaries are softened, blurred, or even erased, architecture had the opportunity to exploit its traditional boundaries creating ambiguity and interstitial relationships.

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