The Social Experiment

Modern architecture’s defiance against personal adaptation exposes the discipline's fundamental flaw. Permanent infrastructures on their own struggle to remain socially, culturally, and physically conscious of the variance of needs that occupy them. Historical states of emergencies (such as COVID-19) have proven these limitations, as temporary architecture (TA) has become a key tool in human resilience.

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The systematic approach to ‘Permanently Temporary’ combines the ways in which we use pop-up machinery at a daily scale to complete re-use transformations. This dynamic addition to public space proposes an ever-evolving new city to better activate safe spaces and blur the distinction between relief and leisure. It is a radical and experimental approach to adjusting the city grid with attachments and guides for pop-up use, ranging from complete event transformation to daily additions or subtractions.