#031AB3BALCONIES BALCONIES BALCONIES
2024
A balcony provides a very peculiar type of sociality in buildings. Oscillating between public and private, it is neither oversharing nor withdrawing into complete seclusion. Regionally, balconies manifest in diverse adaptations. The Baltic boast soviet balconies with personalized features such as extended walls and fabrics, catering both privacy and thermal comfort. The Mediterranean elaborate historic balconies into vibrant social hubs, serving as communal bars and doubling as stages for performances. The Korean treats their balconies as front doors for logistics and moving furniture. Unlike any architectural typologies, balconies program are not defined by its spatial quality but rather through contextualized social norms, capitalized today as a common asset for real-estate benefits.
Inspired by these diverse contexts, this project posits balcony as a transitional space that rejects its architectural and functional definitions. Drawing from Building 7's Rotch library extension, where the remnants of a historical exterior brick wall is now internalized. The exhibition imagines an internal-external condition of eight different balconies' past, present, and future in the formats of zines, collages, and installations. Although abiding most of its conventions, one thing remains the same, it is a place of gathering and sharing.
BALCONIES BALCONIES BALCNOIES present eight balconies in eight buildings with eight stories in eight zines and an eight-pointed asterisk table.
Photo: Jabari Canada, Jaye Fan
This is an extension project from the residency research at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, LT
2024
A balcony provides a very peculiar type of sociality in buildings. Oscillating between public and private, it is neither oversharing nor withdrawing into complete seclusion. Regionally, balconies manifest in diverse adaptations. The Baltic boast soviet balconies with personalized features such as extended walls and fabrics, catering both privacy and thermal comfort. The Mediterranean elaborate historic balconies into vibrant social hubs, serving as communal bars and doubling as stages for performances. The Korean treats their balconies as front doors for logistics and moving furniture. Unlike any architectural typologies, balconies program are not defined by its spatial quality but rather through contextualized social norms, capitalized today as a common asset for real-estate benefits.
Inspired by these diverse contexts, this project posits balcony as a transitional space that rejects its architectural and functional definitions. Drawing from Building 7's Rotch library extension, where the remnants of a historical exterior brick wall is now internalized. The exhibition imagines an internal-external condition of eight different balconies' past, present, and future in the formats of zines, collages, and installations. Although abiding most of its conventions, one thing remains the same, it is a place of gathering and sharing.
BALCONIES BALCONIES BALCNOIES present eight balconies in eight buildings with eight stories in eight zines and an eight-pointed asterisk table.
Photo: Jabari Canada, Jaye Fan
This is an extension project from the residency research at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, LT