ABSTRACT

Interiority, a concept of increasing importance in urban centers, allows architects to consider how to alter the state of various environments. Issues of interiority and the subject of alteration might become central to the work of many contemporary architects. Mid- to late-twentieth-century obsessions with digital technology often relied on biological models to resolve how architecture could adapt to its changing context. Experimenting with the limits of continuity and fragmentation through alteration allows for a greater degree of compatibility with existing architectural systems, as well as an even greater plurality of experience and effect. Alteration can be seen as a way to resituate interiority in architecture, highlighting disjunctive capacities of alteration, while ushering postdigital themes relevant to the academy and cultural trends in the industry. The designs alter a series of autonomous landscapes, interiors, and architectural objects into a rhythmic texture that appears and disappears throughout the site.