Entering Through the Closet

Architecture has made the socially normative body the primary audience for cities with a growingly diverse population. With this population evolving into one with an expansive idea of gender, the needs of our cities are beginning to challenge the historically rigid functions of space and spatial performance. Entering Through the Closet is a design manifesto exploring the future of trans-embodiment that extends beyond the body of the trans-gendered or the discourse of gender and gender non-conformists, and into that of architecture. Due to the constraints of economics and accessibility, the affordability of space becomes like that of the body given to one at birth, an assignment. Both the form of the domestic home and the form of the body hold identities that apply various restrictions and privileges to the self, occupying. The trans approach to the body is one challenging these restrictions through a deconstruction of the physical self. Entering Through the Closet identifies an architectural potential, methodology, and way of thought that requires one to deconstruct the historic identity of the old to provide habitability for the new, reconstructing architecture and architectural thought as we do ourselves.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.111.9

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978-1-944214-41-8