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Questions of Context, Conditions of Interior

Part 2 Project 2020
Boyd Hellier Knox
University of Melbourne | Australia
This is a project about the city. While this is one answer for one site, it looks to address a subject of creeping global familiarity.

This is a site typified by an extreme density, where the facade is the final domain of the architect, and the Interior is the domain of capital. Where the built language of cheap panels and mirrored glass is emblematic of the uninspiring aspirations of the quantifiable city.

In such an environment, where the built offers an anti-inspiration, deeper questions of context become critical. These questions are of geology, and pedestrians, of history and of sound, and of the Interior.

Describing the Interior as a subjective realm that offers a retreat from the wider world, Richard Sennett posits that this constructed realm allows for a space of ‘openness, frankness and sharing’. These moments of Interiority present an alternative to the contemporary priorities of the city.

This Interior is a tower. This Interior seeks to challenge spatially embedded practises of capitalism, colonialism, and quantification. This Interior advocates for the civic, and for the spaces where people may be alone in safety and in public. This Interior proposes an alternative.

Boyd Hellier Knox

Tutor(s)
Alan Pert
2020
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