April, 2020
Undergrad
Senior Studio, Spring Semester
Prof. Steven
Chodoriwsky

Well, Covid wiped the floor with the rest of this semester and faculty did their best to pick up the mess.

By drawing parallels and intersections between social media and the global virus, I’ve started to adapt my architectural interventions of debate to the new parameters of the pandemic.

Communication has now been pretty much limited to social media and it is becoming increasingly clear that I cannot leave virtual communication out of the architecture of debate conversation.

Both Covid-19 and Instagram have many physical parameters in common.

Such as physical distance from one person to the next, the inability to make skin-to-skin contact, and the juxtaposition of sound between the two.

And as the world is slowly going remote, I’m becoming obsessed with

spatializing social media

in hopes of informing the architecture and conversation of debate. And by doing so, how I might be able to bridge the growing gap between the physical senses that both, social media and
Covid, isolate.


The results are as follows;

Physical sense partitions are to be placed along circulatory paths and corridors in hopes of catering to the attention of general citizens on and around the University of Utah campus. Specifically around the site of the Vice Presidential debate, Kingsbury Hall.

The rectangles and circles outlined in red are suggested locations.

social distance strings

(explored)

(accentuated)
(obscured)
(masked)

senses

hearing
sight
touch

touch incubation

senses

hearing
sight
touch

(explored)

(masked)
(accentuated)
(accentuated)

clear acrylic
panel with hand fenestration

filtered water bucket attached to water line with rubber hose

2”x4” wood frame

fold-able wood support bars