Shimrit Rudin Explores: Hybrid Culture and the Queering of Architecture
A fantasy project examining the issue of identities and context in space, and their transformative impact on architecture in particular. Based on queer theory and its assimilation into binary space with a complex history of multiple identities, such as former Arab neighborhood Manshiya/current Charles Clore Park in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
The master plan collage represents a space that is subject to personal interpretation. The playful design process of the architectural elements, styles and urban grids are applied to each aspect of this project: the new-old urban grid, the pavilions which are placed in different areas in the project, as well as the installations on the buildings, all serve the purpose of telling different stories of this place throughout multiple lines of history.
This project was assembled with escapist representations of the mixing, citing and referencing of many layers of this complex area, breaking architectural-spatial conventions, inspired by queer culture.
