2021-onging

The Outdoor Room for Graphic Designers engages the awkward site of an existing home in Cleveland, Ohio. The project creates an interior room on the exterior of the house. In order to do this, walls are designed which include exact bits of trim from the interior of the home which sneak out into the outside. While doing so, they engage the client's specific aesthetic position as graphic designers. As a digital brush can do to an image, the project’s trim disengages, slips, scans, and is otherwise easily torn from its typical and expected alignments. New outdoor spaces redirect visitors to a previously underutilized doorway which will serve as the new preferred entrance of the home. Doubling as a gathering space and a new face for the client, this project playfully challenges existing aesthetic conventions.