Resetting the Rules of Context: Rewriting the Perceptions of Space in the City
In this project context is defined as a frame of reference through which we chose to experience the world around us. This proposal challenged this frame of reference, through a series of designed architectural glitches within the square of the Michaelplatz in Vienna. The glitches intention is to liberate us from the existing architectural spatial rules of a city and reveal the architectural conflicts which have occured within the square. Adolf Loos' Looshaus building within this square is the protagonist of the glitches which sparks the architectural conflicts. An example of one of these designed glitches is the Looshaus building catapults itself at its enemy the Emperor's Hofburg palace opposite to rip of the palace's ornament. After the series of glitches have occured, it is found two murders have taken place. The first a dead human body and the second an architectural murder caused by removal of all the ornament of the palace's facades. It is concluded that the Looshaus building is the murderer.