Fake Poperties, Fake Estates +
Designed geographies developed by students riffing on Gordon Matta-Clark's "Reality Properties, fake estates" where the documentation of the gutter spaces of New York becomes a project in its own right. Leftover spaces produced through the friction between the relentless grid of the city and the geographic reality become "useless" objects floating in the larger, extruded ground of the city, while still remaining firmly entrenched within economic and political systems. The banality of real estate documentation that GMC presented is taken as the ground for architectural explorations where the architect's responsibility is extended to not just the architecture that placed on the ground but the design of ground itself. The modernist idea of tabula rasa evolves from its primitive geometric condition to a primitive geographic condition.
Dessau Institute of Architecture, 2017