Week 0 Project Proposal

As the interstitial layer, architecture may thus become a tool by which these things can be both maintained and resisted, waning into both the metaphysical and the concrete.

To this end, the project will propose an investigation of these two conditions on an analogous site in the local, Bridge Road in Richmond, which is reported to have a 25% commercial vacancy rate. The locus of this investigation will surround the Richmond City Hall as a land titles office, the corporeal body of the formless ‘market’ in which property becomes official record. If that which is owned lies on the interior, of which the records office is the head, its effects thus lie on the outside, in the hands, knees or ankles. Property in this instance is a body, commanded by the head, yet expressed in different forms and gestures.

To architecturalize property is thus to investigate it in its most fundamental sense, as that which encloses the body (the records office), but also speaks to architecture as relational, a tool by which these things are registered (the peripheries of this).