Dwelling in Uncertain

This project delves into the problematic relationship between humans and the environment. Through the lens of architecture and by rethinking the dominant modus operandi of architects, it aims to imagine alternative scenarios for the coexistence of human and non-human elements.

The project intends to develop a deeper understanding of the planned erasure of the existing site conditions, where beings and matter form informal entanglements that do not follow the normative, and where natural influences seem to be out of hand. Elements of the urban "stuff" appear to be falling apart, eroded, colonized by various "subnatures." The goal of the project is to imagine an alternative scenario for the inhabitation of such a context where humans and non-humans can coexist.\nAs we find ourselves in a moment of great uncertainty, the ways we used to think about architecture, the environment, and their entanglement, are proving to be no longer relevant. From this irrelevance, various frictions emerge between the natural and man-made, between norms and conditions, and between desires and the Earth's ability to satisfy them.\nThis problematic relationship between reality and the real exerting its influence on architecture seems to be reversibly linked to the architect’s modus operandi. The real, in Lacanian terms, is the state of nature from which we have been forever severed by our entrance into language. This real, which we cannot fathom, forever in discord with our symbolic order, seems to threaten our very existence. Thus, the language utilized by architects should be redefined. Such, it often seems, restricts the extent to which we are capable of imagining the coexistence with the non-human. This project avoids explicit, demobilizing representations. It focuses mostly on generative and implicit. By doing so, it attempts to approximate the natural unfolding. This is why model-making, material extrusions, and superimposition were so crucial in imagining the possible spatial condition and entanglement of the elements.\nYet, to reveal the innermost meaning of the situation for the inhabitants and the site, storytelling incorporated the means of allegory and metaphor which, combined with spatial, formal, and material studies, allowed to represent the potential of imagined space. These elements finally met on the ground of filmmaking, finding yet another architectural incarnation.