Design is the art of negotiating between competing desires. Designers are continuously asked to invent an in-between. This does not mean the in-between is a compromise. It is a new condition, in fact, one that often challenges the status quo and forces the industry, client and general audience to do the same. The in-between is inevitably the most realistic option. It is the in-between porridge, chair and bed that Goldilocks finds most palatable.
Retail is an in-between, and it operates both as “private space” (the personal identity of buying / owning) and “public space” (the new public realm). Retail is extraordinarily pragmatic and ordered. At the same time, it positions goods in a theatre of desire. Increasingly, retail is an online space, with brick and mortar locations a chance to experience the virtual display of goods as a physical experience.
This studio challenged students to invent retail as a space in-between private + public, pragmatic + theatrical and virtual + real. Conducted entirely online, the studio also challenged students to develop a process in-between drawings, models and images by focusing on mixed media collage.
Here, students helped imagine a renewed future for 520 South Court Street in Montgomery, AL. Suite A, with a clerestory, is proposed as a home goods showroom. Suite D, with a narrow porch, is proposed as an office environments showroom.
The development of a material imagination through the arrangement and curation of programmatic furniture, acoustic surfaces and the visualization of designed lighting were key objectives. We hope you enjoy the results.
Instructors:
Jennifer Pindyck, Thesis, Research
Matt Hall, Thesis
Kevin Moore, Thesis, History & Theory
Gorham Bird, Thesis
Rebecca O’Neal Dagg, Professional Practice
In-Between: 2020 Summer Thesis ©2020
In-Between: 2020 Summer Thesis includes work produced in the Interior Architecture program of the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. All photographs and drawings are products of the authors unless noted otherwise. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including in any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the Auburn University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.
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