My graduate thesis explores what it means for a space to be queer. As a trans-architectural designer, I am one of many queer persons continually looking for belonging in space. This these is an attempt to capture that longing, express that pursuit, and advocate for the enhanced visibility of trans people in public space.
Queer Body; Queer Place is an interactive architectural environment that harnesses the material properties of clay and fabric, influenced by atmosphere and body, to reflect the transformative power of the gender-queer experience.
Inflatable structures are places on site, manipulated, moved, and interacted with. Community members then use clay to build a cob encasement around the inflatable. In doing so the queer place becomes monument and the inflatable moves to create queer place within a new area of the city.
