LOK / 2018
From SPC / Liminal
Taught by Peter Brew / Caitlyn Parry
Programme Stage
            For many years a large part of architecture has revolved around the manipulation of movement. The elements we place dictate where one can move to, opening and sectioning parts of the world. We build walls that inhibit movement we build walkways that enable. Our project is centralised around giving agency to the inhabitants. Our project is in a permanent state of transcience, expanding and compressing in constant feedback with the way space is being inhabited. The project does not seek to control movement but to facilitate. The process to end up with such a structure has its origins in movement; dances with a Microsoft Hololens reacting to a narrative written based on experiences at the site created the ‘negative’ (inhabitable space), not sectioning off the space of movement but encouraging movement within. The ‘positive’ space (uninhabitable space) was then rigorously tested against architectural knowledge to see what placement and amount of inflatables would create the effect we sought; moments of compression and expansion not only in the perceived static forms but also how this would develop in the moving forms. As well as taking on partially the characteristics of the gesture formed by the dance the aim of the project was to seek to create a stage for dance that was as fluid and responsive to circumstance as the dancers themselves.