TRANSITIONAL URBAN SPACE

This research investigates the period between demolition and construction: the transitional condition that official records never preserve. Informal gardens in rubble gaps, object accumulations at thresholds, and spatial claims that persist after displacement are documented as evidence of how residents maintain relationships with space that planning frameworks have already written off. Forbidden Portals investigates the threshold condition itself, the spatial junction where a path ends and a place begins, examining how barriers, gaps, and openings become portals into overlooked urban realms. Research also engages with redevelopment policy, advocating for the recognition of ordinary and unspectacular buildings as legitimate urban heritage on the basis that collective memory and urban identity are not exclusive to architecturally significant structures.

Projects and archives:
Void Gardens, 2024 to present
Demolition Typographies, 2019 to present
Forbidden Portals, 2023
Urban Resistance, 2025
Redevelopment policy research and advocacy, ongoing