Wearable Landscape

MIT Core 1 | Fall 2017 | Professor Liam O’Brien Jr

Working in groups of 3, the studio was tasked with “considering the room that wears the body, and the new body which wears the room”.

Our practice became interested in where the room might lie in the social construction of spaces. We set out to create a flexible architecture that accentuates the unspoken rules and relationships of interpersonal conduct. The room is activated by occupation, taking on a form and a function based on the configuration of its inhabitants. The landscape of the room simultaneously imposes itself on participants in return, pushing for positioning that requires conscious consideration of comfort in shared spaces. The pattern from which the room is constructed pulls its shapes and dimensions from sartorial inquiry, but invites misuse. The rules imposed on the landscape are simultaneously binding and expansive.