I believe in the urgency to make architecture that is flexible, clandestine and subjective as a matter of survival. To begin to address these monumental concepts, I offer Body-Building, a performative sculpture that consists of responsive glass plains that transform in appearance and function using mirror, silicon joints and zippers.
Acting as a skin, these geodesic glass plains reciprocally react to the structure beneath, camouflages into its environment and acts as an amorphic shield. As global migration shifts city populations, I offer a speculative reconfiguring of power dynamics with a bottom up approach. If a building can be thought of as the physicalization of cultural values; then can Body-Building offer a tool for subjects to author their personal and collective homes. Can our cities of the future transform our static structures to dynamic spaces?
This project hopes to remind architecture and humans of our reciprocal relationship, and to imagine a future where both architecture and humans more sensitively and actively direct the spaces we occupy and travel through.
Created with support from NSG Group North Pilkington North America, an international glass manufacturer, and the Toledo Arts Commision’s Momentum | Intersection Program,.
