See You in the In-Between

Christopher James Buchhorn

Supervisor: Emma Jackson

Winner of the Anne Butler Memorial Medal

"While the suburbs provide desirable qualities like privacy, space and individuality, they congruently present a sheltered, dewy-eyed view of the world, developing an isolated suburban sensibility through a common experience, developed on a ruthless attitude towards context and landscape as to establish new borders of segregated territories, often in a blurred mass of uniform buildings.

So, what if we challenge this accepted condition of now? What if Architecture extended these narrow borderlines and was persuaded to loop into an articulated in-between realm.

This project questions what limitations we place on ourselves, and the agency afforded to societal behaviours and abilities to change by adhering to a cartesian logic of absolute boundaries.

It seeks to challenge these established urban hierarchies and explore the uncomfortable negotiations of urban thresholds and challenge the current models of its framework. It aims to walk the lines of boundary and enclosure, inside and outside, for an architecture that is not absolute that responds to its contextual conditions of now and when. Where outcomes can be broken up to reveal unexpected opportunities, shifting from traditional modes of intervention, and to decolonise a system that privileges the right angle above all else."

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