SEAM CITY
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In Collaboration with Morgan Starkey
Naming us “seamstresses,” we challenged the existing organization of urban experience by creating seams to enable and respond to the heterogeneous and change needs of our social mix. The way we meet the modern city is a gradual and sequen- tial experience of many layers in terms of privacy. However, the matter of privacy has not been the perennial concept of urban life. What if there is a radical jump between the most private rooms and the most public plaza? What does the juxtaposition of incompatible programs create an unprecedented perspective toward city and architecture? How can the formal collision trigger a new urban strategy? Various seams are introduced as a device to investigate the questions suggested above. The “quantum jump” across disparate forms, programs, and differentiated privacy allows a novel perspective to the city, mutual exchange, and unexpected fun.
In Collaboration with Morgan Starkey
Naming us “seamstresses,” we challenged the existing organization of urban experience by creating seams to enable and respond to the heterogeneous and change needs of our social mix. The way we meet the modern city is a gradual and sequen- tial experience of many layers in terms of privacy. However, the matter of privacy has not been the perennial concept of urban life. What if there is a radical jump between the most private rooms and the most public plaza? What does the juxtaposition of incompatible programs create an unprecedented perspective toward city and architecture? How can the formal collision trigger a new urban strategy? Various seams are introduced as a device to investigate the questions suggested above. The “quantum jump” across disparate forms, programs, and differentiated privacy allows a novel perspective to the city, mutual exchange, and unexpected fun.