Denver, CO
Installation for ACADIA 2023
2023
Denver, CO
Installation for ACADIA 2023
2023
Team Lead: Leyuan Li
Team Members: Blake Brooks, Stephanie Clouse, Hannah Drummond, Trevor Motzko, and Jackson Pedrazzi
“Wall-Table-Bed” is an exhibition installation designed for the 2023 ACADIA conference. It comprises nine movable, operable panels, creating a malleable venue that accommodates public events and activities to engage divergent constituents.
Primarily functioning as an exhibition wall, each installation module is clad with a smooth plywood surface on one side and removable round panels on the other side. The duality of flatness—one side resembling the finish of the inner layer and the other side exaggerating the scale of scalloped shingles—creates a false front that insulates a transient condition of threshold and a situational reading of the inside and the outside. Taking the same dimension as a single bed, the module delivers its vagueness of functions through the instability of its orientation: it could be used as a bed frame, a tabletop, a bench, and a shelf, along with the demountable panels that compose a chair. The trans-functional nature of the module, amplified through its replication in malleable conditions, accumulates to a field condition of adaptable interior objects that constantly blur the boundary between part and whole, outside and inside, undefined and prescribed. In resistance to a conducive definition of a room—a term typically defined through the organization of parts performing their prescribed duties, the installation intends to challenge the normative conception of the interior, seeking alternative means to expand the contemporary definition of domesticity and interiority.
Team Members: Blake Brooks, Stephanie Clouse, Hannah Drummond, Trevor Motzko, and Jackson Pedrazzi
“Wall-Table-Bed” is an exhibition installation designed for the 2023 ACADIA conference. It comprises nine movable, operable panels, creating a malleable venue that accommodates public events and activities to engage divergent constituents.
Primarily functioning as an exhibition wall, each installation module is clad with a smooth plywood surface on one side and removable round panels on the other side. The duality of flatness—one side resembling the finish of the inner layer and the other side exaggerating the scale of scalloped shingles—creates a false front that insulates a transient condition of threshold and a situational reading of the inside and the outside. Taking the same dimension as a single bed, the module delivers its vagueness of functions through the instability of its orientation: it could be used as a bed frame, a tabletop, a bench, and a shelf, along with the demountable panels that compose a chair. The trans-functional nature of the module, amplified through its replication in malleable conditions, accumulates to a field condition of adaptable interior objects that constantly blur the boundary between part and whole, outside and inside, undefined and prescribed. In resistance to a conducive definition of a room—a term typically defined through the organization of parts performing their prescribed duties, the installation intends to challenge the normative conception of the interior, seeking alternative means to expand the contemporary definition of domesticity and interiority.