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Queer Sprawl  

Queer Sprawl

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Queer Sprawl

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The architectural model and the dollhouse are objectively similar: both are miniature buildings.

But they are at opposite poles of culture and gender. The model occupies a strong position in the traditionally male dominated professions of architecture and real estate development. The scale the model represents is often vast: a tower or a civic campus. The dollhouse represents a smaller building and is traditionally feminine. It is almost always domestic: a space for decoration and imagining household rituals, conversations, and roles.

The suburbs ringing our cities are changing fast, and their strict limitations are coming under increased scrutiny. As their populations grow and their demographics shift, different folks are inhabiting the cul-de-sacs dollhouse-like dwellings. In suspending disbelief about zoning rules and architectural form, in combining the vocabulary of the architectural model with the dollhouse, could the suburban sprawl be a more equitable place?

This project explores the construction of queer identities and how their integration into the suburban environment might create new types of spaces. It is both an architectural model and, like a dollhouse, a place for formal play.

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