Invasiveness

Matter Out of Place - A Food Center in Lower Manhattan

Instructor: Nate Hume

Team: Tuo Chen, Hongbang Chen

Fall 2021

“No form of life is inherently subnatural; rather, relative to architecture, life becomes subnatural when it makes us question the dominant social role of architecture.” by David Gissen in Subnature

Waste does not have any fundamental physical quality. Instead, it is a social category that we assign to specific types of social relations. In the book Purity and Danger, Douglas asserts that things, people and practices become dirty when they are “matter out of place,” So here, architectural spaces, elements, and materials that interlock and invade each other are matter out of places. These moments are when architectural invasiveness happened.

Invasiveness tests the idea of how nature and urban invading with each can bring new aesthetics and new spatial experience to the building. And it also discovers the relationship between the city and nature in Manhattan.