BEST IN FACULTY: Soles Interlaced
"As an architect, I often find myself drawn to gateways. I encourage the use of transitional spaces, as I am intrigued by how they force us to reflect on our present-day selves by prompting an indulgence into the life of another."
The following are excerpts taken from my body of work Soles Interlaced. This portfolio is a curated exhibition space at Sydney’s Carriageworks, which showcases artefacts from the Powerhouse Museum. By showcasing the Joseph Box Shoe Collection, my designs attempt to harness spatial organisation in a way that subverts mundane objects such as shoes, into a focal point of human connectivity. My work was influenced by the period that each shoe was from, the particularity of their craftsmanship and the heritage and biome behind each shoe remnant.
As an architect, I often find myself drawn to gateways. I encourage the use of transitional spaces, as I am intrigued by how they force us to reflect on our present-day selves by prompting an indulgence into the life of another. In physical spaces, this concept of liminalities is most evident in thresholds, where a portal brings together two entities or spaces by rendering them as one. This concept repeatedly appears within my work, and I plan to explore this in designs to come.
