City in Hyperspace

06.1996
New York City (U.S.A.)
Thesis
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Manhattan's Lower East Side remains one of the most culturally diverse landscapes on the planet. It is home to Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus, etc. These people cohabit a small densely populated area. The interaction leads to a fusion of living mechanisms. Here the tenement was born and here it is transformed!

The city in hyperspace challenges the notion of property (a concept of spatial ownership) and perception; rather than living within defined economic boundaries one lives on/around the property lines. The dwellers inhabit houses wrapped x dimensions around cores; hyperlines, the city's routes of travel. Hyperspace is not visible to us, it exists beyond physical perceptions; it is populated by travelers and observed by anthropologists located within the space folds.

This investigation reveals the "hyper" qualities of space as dimensions are folded unveiling the complexities encountered at the fold, i.e. between 2D and 3D, space changes radically and so does the way we inhabit it.
 
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