Category Archives: mobile homes
inflatable meeting space
the goal is to create an alternative and imaginative community meeting space. the design adapts the existing double-membrane and ring-like form of a series of small, inflatable toy boats, which are strung together to create a row of windows for … Continue reading
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scaffolding
one side is lined for the insertion of emergency contact information, to keep close at hand or to provide to others in the community. the other side reads “scaffolding.” scaffolding is a tangible support network that is always in the … Continue reading
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building a room from blocks, birds & rabbits
an animation made by the duo paper anklets (with megan schultz) for an exhibit curated by cynthia hammond and thomas strickland on the meeting of animals and architecture in books for children. this animation explores the imaginative spaces created by … Continue reading
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desire
a study in intimate air flow: i want to get close to the plastic, try to wrap my body around it, breathe through it. i am testing the potential choreography of my body, as part of a changing relationship with … Continue reading
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one nite squat
this intervention was created both in response to the city’s controversial redevelopment plans for griffintown and in preparation for a more sustained attempt to create a grassroots community centre in the neighboring area of pointe-saint-charles. in the course of one … Continue reading
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urban exodus
it was the night a city escaped out the window but didn’t get very far. stuck inside on a cold winter night in montreal, we got to thinking about the movement of 1960s subcultures from cities to countryside, about drop-outs … Continue reading
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election day
we didn’t want to simply not vote; instead we had a pillowfight. without looking at or speaking to one another, we set up a temporary polling place of sorts, on a median in between two actual stations (an elementary school … Continue reading
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cardboard parade
an investigation of recycled cardboard as a building material and the (public/private) spaces around and between bodies. a foray into the embodied architecture of parades. a study in walking together through our neighborhood, in unusual circumstances and strange body-buildings. an … Continue reading
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international style comes to parkdale
a collaboration inspired by the legendary photograph of architects dressed as their designs at the 1931 beaux arts ball, i walked and sat under this international style house (complete with garage) in different locations in parkdale, toronto. without the celebrity … Continue reading
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