STUDIO MADOUH

MANHATTAN DYSTOPIA

DATE : 2009

STATUS : THEORY

LOCATION : NEW YORK

AREA : N/A

PROGRAM : URBAN

As a start, an initial visit to architectural manifestos and visionary architecture of the 20th century and look at their way of dealing with post 911 crises.  The premise of this project considers security as an agenda. The vision is to no longer allow machines or cameras that will secure you, yet building mechanisms that will induce the level of self-policing. The person becomes the camera. In fact, a moving camera.

Through space studies, the proposal emphasizes the connection between a passage and aperture to ignite a form that encapsulates the absence of such machinery of surveillance.

With the optimistic aim of developing inventive and useful architecture through singular obsession, extrapolation, and exaggeration.  The project is proposing a hypothetical Manhattan designed to induce security and observation through building strategy.  This project therefore is assuming a context that has already been radically altered. In other words, we view security on a dystopic level. The ideal Utopian atmosphere is to embed dystopia, security and voyeurism as part of the natural living condition.