Architecture As Object, Object As Architecture

Alana Kerr

Using the motif of the arch as a way to frame division and definition of threshold of space, different methods of articulating these thresholds were explored using the following term understandings:

Indifference Intentionally incomplete. Explored through developing an understanding of an incomplete arch

Estrangement Different from what it once was without becoming foreign. Explored through inversion of typical definitions

Ambivalence Undefined, threshold of definition obscured. Explored through creased / smooth boundaries.

In the renders, birds were used to convey scale rather than people, because they are less immediately relateable than a scale figure. This was to further obscure the line between object and architecture. Out of proportion trees were also used to further this effect.

Render birds (Indifference)

Indifference Estrangement Ambivalence