Chapter 4
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No More Boundary

Movie Scene, Ghost in The Shell, 1995

Book Cover, A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Hararway

The meaning of architecture in the world in which reality is constantly augmented through both the digital and the material is very different than it was before.  As the 1995 movie Ghost in The Shell asks at its’ end, whether meaning will only be obtained and retained in the sea of digital, and electronics, or there is some kind of materiality that we can grab onto. This thesis stands on the latter point of view.

We are all cyborgs now. Donna Hararway says in her famous A Cyborg Manifesto that the idea of a cyborg could blur the boundary between genders. It opens up different readings, understanding, and it changes our taken-for-granted perceptions.

The thesis, by exploring the quality of misreading and unfocused field condition, wishes to open up new readings for our built environment. We then may find meanings in the superimposed layers of the two realities.

The line between digital and material is destined to be blurred in our lives, and I would say, so is it in architecture. 

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Project done in CED, UC Berkeley  |  Year: 2017   |  Primary Adviser: Neyran Turan  |  Secondary Adviser: M. Paz Gutierrez