Built from 500 borrowed plastic chairs, Urchin aims to question the role of the everyday object: from the typical use that ?affords? sitting to an aggregation that becomes skin-like: the object?s features are no longer understood in terms of their use (legs, arms, seat) but in terms of their form (spikes, curves, voids) as, due to their rotation away from the ground, they lose their relationship with the human body.

© Joe Wilensky

Architects: CODA

Location: Ithaca, NY, USA, United States

Architect In Charge: CODA

Area: 1260.0 ft2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Joe Wilensky, John Lai, Courtesy of CODA

Collaborators: Caroline O?Donnell / Chris Morse / John Lai / Juan Carlos Artologaza, with thanks to Basak Akman / Zahid Alibhai / Kun Bi / Emma Boudreau / Isabel Branas / Mwanzaa Brown / Sarah Bujnowski / Kun Chen / Stephen Clond / Jacob Cohen / George DiStefano / Gary Esposito / Aurelie Frolet / Ramses Gonzalez / Yue (Lancer) Gu / Jose Ibarra / Ellie Krause / Mark Leskovec / Mark Yu-Chen Lien / Lauren Lochry / Lingzhe Lu / Xiaoxue (Iris) Ma / Alexandre Mecattaf/ Jamie Mitchell / Brad Nathanson / Sophie Nichols / Travis Nissen / Ye Chen (Daniel) Park / Leroy Patterson / Max Piersol / Zelmira Rizo-Patron / Alireza Shojakhani / Alex Terry / Haoran (Henry) Wang / Derek Yi / Linjun Yu / Maggie Zou
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