Entering Through the Closet

Architecture has made the socially normative body the primary audience for cities with a growingly diverse population. With this population evolving into one with an expansive idea of gender, the needs of our cities are beginning to challenge the historically rigid functions of spaceand spatial performance. Entering Through the Closet is adesign manifesto exploring the future of trans-embodimentthat extends beyond the body of the trans-gendered or thediscourse of gender and gender non-conformists, and intothat of architecture. Due to the constraints of economics and accessibility, the affordability of space becomes like thatof the body given to one at birth, an assignment. Both theform of the domestic home and the form of the body holdidentities that apply various restrictions and privileges to the self, occupying. The trans approach to the body is one challenging these restrictions through a deconstruction ofthe physical self. Entering Through the Closet identifies anarchitectural potential, methodology, and way of thought that requires one to deconstruct the historic identity of theold to provide habitability for the new, reconstructing architecture and architectural thought as we do ourselves.