outside:in
May 31, 2008 – 12:33 amUrban environments provide a broad spectrum of opportunities to conceptualize the role of screens or projections as methods to sculpt or define spatial relationships. Outside:In proposes to use the concept of urban screens to highlight the relationship between vertical levels within the city fabric. The relationship between underground spaces such as metros and infrastructure corridors and the above ground surfaces is often tenuous. Access between each space is often through single points; stairways, escalators, or elevators and therefore disconnected both perceptually and physically. Outside:In creates a new relationship between separate urban strate through the urban landscape above and a projected landscape below. The project questions the typical relationship between urbanity and landscape. The proposal exaggerates the object quality of the urban landscape by placing vegetation within a display case and monitoring it through video surveillance. The exhibitB