overconstruction studio : the brief

As a proto-building, the landscape of construction is riddled with energy progressing toward inert and hermetically sealed buildings; the processes of expending human power, machine logics, and support structures in a measurable activity of work and the creation of a sealed artificial environment. A potent phase in the narrative of a building it depicts the alteration and establishes the connectivity of a material organization; splicing into existing infrastructure, defining internal draws, and external contributions. Left as visual reminders in the wake of economic downturns, stalled construction sites are unforgiving in their use of space and material. There exists an opportunity, in this frozen state of progression, to re-appropriate the territory of the construction site as an advantageous residue of an unplanned halt. Coupling this space in its time of pause with ‘temporary’ productive activity in the realm of energy (electrical production, urban farming, athletic play, and/or atmospheric manipulations) a stalled site can be elevated to become a spatial contribution and localized infrastructure. This studio will explore the potentials of tectonic interludes into this dormant condition as a place for otherwise seemingly absurd alterations in use. A stall in one assemblage of materials allots for the chance instrumentalization of another.