pull.push.slide.pivot.lift.tilt.turn

pull.push.slide.pivot.lift.tilt.turn is an interactive installation designed in response to the Building Partners exhibition at the Harbourfront Centre Architecture Gallery. The installation explores how an architectural project is a negotiation of the ideas of both the Architect and the Client (User). It demonstrates the effects of the User on the final built product through a framework of changeable elements and spaces conceived by the Architect, that can be manipulated by the User to affect the final spatial, visual and material result. The built installation is a play of moving walls, textured and smooth surfaces, materials that alter acoustics, dark and light-coloured planes that reflect or absorb light, an interactive light wall, and moveable furniture-like elements. Sliding, swivelling, and pivoting planes representing walls can be altered to define rooms with differing spatial qualities.

Awards

• Ontario Association of Architects
  Honourable Mention

Press

• Canadian Architect, “Playing Field”
• The Globe & Mail, “Compromise & Collaboration in Design”
• No Mean City, “The Ups and Downs of Architecture Shows”