Unit J

Choreographing Space
This year Unit J is exploring the relationship between the body and its movement in space, understanding how architecture can help to choreograph spatial synergies. We have considered how certain movements and behaviours are programmed within architecture,how space unfolds through movement and how the body occupies space at a range of dimensional and temporal scales.
Building on previous year’s briefs, ‘Choreographing Space’ continues Unit J’s investigations of the bespoke and highly-particular, in contrast to a more conventional and generic approach to design. We’re keen to challenge the Corbusian notion of the ‘modular man’, and Neufert’s space standardisations, both of which fail to acknowledge that no two bodies are the same.
The work of unit J is both experimental and rigorous, producing inventive architectural proposals which deal with issues of corporeal diversity in intelligent and creative ways.