the exhibit
April 23rd - May 14th, 2022
The exhibit was designed for the users to access each of the three worlds. The space was a tight, under-the-staircase niche typically used to store a movable wall, and this unique area provided a sloped ceiling and heavily vertical space primed to house the unvertical forms.
The three worlds were represented as large, corrugated cardboard models and a projection that rolls from one world to the next on an endless loop. The models were spray painted white to match the walls in the space, modifying the wall from the traditional flat expanse and into a chunk of each of these three worlds. The projection fills the space and bends across the three models, the walls, and the ceiling. The space warps as visitor’s shadows grow and transform the niche.
Possible Future Implications of the Unvertical
Unverticality brings a hesitation to assumptive vertical design, but the concept of undoing can carry forward outside of this parameter and into other aspects of spatial design. It helps challenge practices that alienate many people from shared spaces and from becoming designers themselves. It unravels the implied power of a predominant feature in built spaces.