Abject Domestication

Paving our way towards comfort, we purge the abject. Yet the conceived ugly, filth, sins, taboo, and defilement form a vital part of our productive and balanced society.

Premised on an Anthropocene whereby spatial practices shifts towards informality and away from building standardization, a thick, dense and impenetrable infrastructure rises up from the inherited girder design from Common Ground and It’s a Jungle Out There.

Reversing the host-parasite relationship, it becomes an infrastructural host and a mediation between office blocks and girder; whereby these blocks latches onto the infrastructure, sandwiching an atrium and a core. Nestling within this core’s repetitive proliferation, back-alley building services articulate into abject zones where currency exchange and pervasive acts.

Simultaneously, deployable dwelling units sprout – offering, at the cheapest price, the most comfortable spaces for refuge within the refuse. In return, dirty air and water are expelled from the units inside to nourish the environment outside – producing a shared-deterritorisation and a fertile ground for infinite possibilities.

As this cycle exposes itself, we uncover the city becoming-other; bringing closer the abject encounter: of the beautiful, terrible, and perhaps dangerous.