NEGOTIATE MY BOUNDARY

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Aljosa Dekleva, Manuela Gatto, Tina Gregoric, Robert Sedlak, Vasili Stroumpako

The project investigates how today's evolving social systems and domestic organisations affect urban residential architecture. This research on the "super-ordinary" topic of housing is developed through a design project on mass-customization of a neighborhood with an "ambitious" social agenda. The project simulates the parametric design process introducing user participation whereby, via a web page, future dwellers participate in the physical and social organisation of the neighborhood and co-design their dwellings. They select activities that in turn generate the dwelling via digital morphogenetic processes. The internet is used as an architectural design instrument with its interactive parametric potential to generate- strategically, spatially and socially. It becomes a medium for a renewed idea of community and a tool, not only to fulfill and enable social patterns, but mostly to stimulate new social interactions. 

The main focus is the negotiation of boundaries along multiple modes, spatial and social, and on many different scales from XS to XL. Negotiation becomes a generative parameter for the spatial actualization of an architectural proposal. The boundaries created within the project do not define public-private dichotomies , but rather gradients of intimacy establishing multiple domains and therefore manifold modes of social exchange. It is not only about separation and privacy but also about the potential performative effects and interactively relate boundary and dweller.

Image by RAMTV for: Soft(ware) Boundaris Exhibition, 2003