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Vignette of the shelter on the path down to the river. An important intervention in this project, an assemblage of choreographies which guide the body from architecture to the river.

Displacement

Displacement: On Architecture and Choreography, explores the intersections between movement, space, and time, using choreography as a lens to design and critique architecture. Applications of theories from Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, and Afred North Whitehead challenge cartesian principles of space-time. The use of notation systems and site-specific interventions investigate how architecture is an affective choreographer, and is also inversely choreographed by bodies, human and natural. This method of inquiry aims to foster an experiential connection to the environments we dwell in and move through, and a topological architecture which is both functional and responsive to the rhythms and resonances of bodies.

1:200 Proposed Site Model

1:50 Moment Model

1:20 Threshold Model of the Shelter

1:200 Proposed Site Plan

Isometric Projection of the Shelter