Urban Infills @ The DASH Gallery. NYC

An Opportunity for Social Interaction

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Urban Infills proposes a symbiotic relationship between the city and the Dash Gallery. This project expands the exhibition space into the realm of the city. It physically opens the gallery into the street using the façade and the platform access as a canvas, and offers an outside lounge area. From this visual experience of the exterior, passers-by are drawn to explore the interior where the last “urban infill” is set up.

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There is an appropriation of the street by the gallery and the gallery is invaded by the city itself. This reciprocal relationship is set up through a “performance field” made out of tape. Flowing from the façade to the interior through the corridor, the tape generates a field where various street activities take place. Thus, the tape is used to tie things together, to create continuity but also to create boundaries, enclosures, and limits of invasion.

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The tape structures the space, becoming a graffiti, an expression of communication, a path that walks you through a new virtual city landscape, to an imaginary half tube pipe where you can fly on a skateboard. It is a vehicle of transformation of space and more importantly a social experience of the space.

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This project is an investigation about how some preexisting materials can produce new forms of interaction, social experiences and functionality. It merges the boundaries between architecture and sculpture, between the everyday and the extraordinary.

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