the reading of a site (Kensington, Calgary, AB) 

This two week project centred on the performance of a site analysis through the construction of a table, using only one 50″x 50″ sheet of 1/2″ baltic birch plywood. Kensington is a dynamic inner-city neighbourhood that retains its small-scale tight-knit feel despite its relative adjacency to the city centre. The neighbourhood is understood as a single zone, although it is comprised of two communities, Sunnyside and Hillhurst, which are linked/separated by the LRT and a retail height street (10th St NW.) The table, like the neighbourhood, receives its strength through the co-presence of small clustered and dynamic pieces. Together these pieces fit snug, although when too tightly pressed, the tectonic complexity and dynamism of the table becomes unrecognizable. It is only with the ever-changing demands placed on it by its use, that the reveals its geometry and the traces its history (friction) are made visible and/or tangible.