Projects
2016
OVER/UNDER
Architecture as Temporary Urban Assembly for Public Seating
Winnipeg, Canada • Collaboration with Liam Martin / Superinfra
Over–Under is a temporary pavilion built in 2016 in Winnipeg, Canada. Originally installed outside MAKE Coffee, the project used rented scaffolding and plywood planks to produce an inward facing public bench, staging an encounter between those who occupy it and challenging the mundane dialogue between the street and the sidewalk.
Commissioned through a call for a pavilion under strict financial and temporal limits, these constraints became a framework for working within existing material economies. The project shifts away from ownership toward use, return, and reuse. It is composed of two primary elements: rented scaffolding and plywood planks.
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The scaffolding was temporarily assembled and returned unchanged, circulating continuously before and after the project. The plywood was minimally processed into seating and later reabsorbed into the adjacent café as furniture. The pavilion was never a fixed object, but a temporary configuration of materials already in motion.
- Awarded 1st Place by STUFFgroup, Featured in ASSOCIATION vol. 13, Cornell AAP News,
- Cornell University AAP Spring 2017 Newsletter, and The Street is a Public Space by STUFFgroup
fig.4 Axonometric diagram
fig.1 Visitors resting to drink coffee
fig.5 Visitor pausing for a phone call
fig.3 Cyclists taking a break mid-ride on the bench
fig.2 Bench across from the MAKE Coffee storefront