Architecture is changing in front of us, as architectural concept thinking is becoming more and more a way to see, understand and operate in the ever-changing world. As an overall strategy or some kind of pre-meaning, this project proposed a re-examination of the possibility of architectural thinking applied as an act of dual and parallel scale and augmented behaviors between architecture and health fashion. As an extension of this interest, this project focused more specifically on the degree to which body architecture and architecture could be interpreted as an accumulative mutation of interactions, or as having a new potential for integration.
The studio aimed to use architecture and fashion, or body architecture, as a way to increase and improve the lives of people with health conditions or disabilities, creating new forms of life, and integration between the home and its inhabitants, as new ways of life synthesis. Bringing the architecture of the body and architecture of the house together in a very literal manner, not as healing elements, but understanding these operations as opportunities for new individuality and a way of self-empowerment.
Instructor: Hernan Diaz Alonso and Rachael McCall