Final Presentation

The playroom is privatized yet publicizied in the way that the designer, inhabitants, users, audience, etc. are aware of or become aware of the space or so-called lurking presence in the dark. But why does this space, which is designated for creativity, possibility, and fantasy, have such a dark and ominous reputation? Because sex, in the standards of society is a private action. By way of creating a structure specifically for it, sex is then rendered a public action (even in a private space). Therefore I have created such a space based on the unembellished act of sex, all of my designs and drawings subconsciously and unassumingly representative of organs, the foundation of the physical body –the vessel for which sex occurs.

My final design circles back to my second model, an infilled frame, both the roof and walls entrapping the inner organs of my structure. Located on just another corner in the middle of Levittown, NY, the presence of my building so obviously juxtaposes it’s surroundings to the point where it almost appears arbitrary. whether taking the dog for a walk or peering out of the window of your 1957 Chevrolet, you see the building as unsettling and out-of-place, a blemish in the context of 1950’s suburbia. eager individuals enter the building as they would any other Cape Cod style home, gradually ascending and met with the constricting and confining effects of balloon-like concrete walls. the path is predetermined, a space only large enough for a single person to fit through without feeling too confined or unfastened, moving through the space like a finely chewed piece of food would in the esophagus. each smaller room feels like the last, all blending together as the individual’s eyes can only focus on the dim glow of red coming from the stomach-like space further down the two throat-like hallways. the final room or playroom, remains unrestricted by walls to illustrate the endless possibilities of one’s fantasy within the playroom, which is then depicted through the endless, spiraling path in red in my figure ground circulation. Taking a further look into the interior of the space, it is designed with a function completely up to the user, the building only insistent on the circulatory motion of participants, with subliminal depictions of both the male and female reproductive organs, whether that be in the transverse section or the floor plan. My final design brings us back to the most elementary pillar of sex, the body, the glass walls the bones, the red roof the skin, the circular spaces the organs. Without the body, sex is deemed arbitrary, the playroom thus foundationless. I aimed to created a space representative of the body, designed for bodies.