boundaries

my interest in stalled construction sites started in their temporality. the temporality in materials that make up safety walls, construction fences, and scaffolding as well as the temporality in the state of the construction site. a stalled construction site teeters between existing and non-existant, enclosure and limitless. for an architectural project it offers a stage to play off of, a system to tap into and an anchor to tie onto as well as a project in itself to follow and support or challenge and command.

with my interest in temporality i looked to pneumatic architecture. inflatables offered the same quality of temporality as the stalled construction site. its ability to inflate and deflate at an instance or over a given period of time allows for any state of its presence to be temporal. it also allowed for the instillation to be mobile and move easily from one construction site to another to address the issue of stalled progress in williamsburg as a whole and consider an idea of conservation in material.

the effects of pneumatic architecture have a tremendous affect in a habitat such as a stalled construction site because it has a great potential for a very dramatic change in experiential quality but in many ways support some theatrical qualities such as its bordering of exterior and interior and degrees of enclosure. the inflatables challenge of the notion of boundary. it is a thin membrane that clearly dictates one area from another while still sharing the same atmosphere as the construction site. its dictation of what is outside and what is inside is questioned in its transparency and enhanced but its position, form and interaction with other micro-climates and light.

the intent of my project is to push to challenge the notion of interior versus exterior and the concept of boundary in general; through the tangible boundaries of the delicate inflatable membrane and the construction site and intangible boundaries of space such as light, air and projected planes.