Caitlin Masley

It is the influence of Yona Friedman’s system of building after WWII; “when acute housing shortages and ruined economies required immediate and radical solutions. Like his colleagues Frey Otto and Buckminster Fuller, Friedman began his work designing lightweight structures (space-defining elements) for the urban environment. Friedman’s contribution maximized the freedom of the inhabitant to determine the dwelling’s design.” My recent works are a multiplicity of large-scale foam-core hanging structures, onto which I project and then cutout the facades of different international housing projects. These become visual growth structures for various ambiguous situations. The works address the physicality of the space they occupy; continually eluding to movement and forcing the audience to move in dislocating ways. The structures become a never-ending flux based situation thrust upon its temporary inhabitants.