Architecture Also

This project investigates what architecture is and what architecture is also. This project is about redistributing the value in architecture. The value is in the process. The architecture is the process. I am interested in uncovering a network that sits within a place. The architecture being the nodes, existing – but not in isolation. The synthesis between the built form, process, and my considerations is the built outcome.

What does it mean to be sick? Not healthy. What does it mean to be healthy? Not sick. This binary simplification of the way we see health needs to extend itself. The major project manifests in a hospital, but not as we currently know it.

This proposition exposes the inherent simplicity of all we require and looks closely at how much of the existing circumstance we can commandeer to fulfill the brief. The process uses the hand- built to reiterate the idea of the material shaping the process, the process informing the architecture which then informs the Architect.

A book by Emanuel Cheraskin stated that “every new idea goes through three phases: ridicule, discussion and general acceptance”. By doing this project, it now occupies a place within the discursive realm. Situating itself within the discipline with the objective of shifting our understanding of what architecture is and what architecture is also.