CASE STUDY

South City Beach Kiosk is an example of public space that becomes Queer space through occupation. Designed for public amenity and a place that embodies function and binaries – it is not typically or aesthetically Queer.

The Kiosk through community and association has absorbed an un-designed purpose, as a place for congregation. The space has become superimposed with meaning and history, caried through bodies and experience.

It is a precinct of immaterial Queerness.

The brutalist, monotonous cement form is a departure from queer spaces I have explored previously in this research but reinforces the notion that queer space is not materially distinct but is attributed to its occupation.

Not all spaces designed for queer people are reformations of the pride flag, or the cultures that operate within queerness.

History affirms it has always been about people, indiscriminately.

The proof is in this history, queer spaces have not always been accessible or designed, there are spaces that mirror the beach kiosk globally that intangibly embody places of refuge.