VIZ-A-VIZ

What we need right now, more than ever, is to be with each other in the world. But how can architecture make this happen?
Viz-a-viz is an experiment in the creation of public moments drawing people together through the deep rituals of our everyday lives: gathering around a table, chats over the suburban fence, pee(r)ing through the bush, sitting side-by-side on a jostling tram, or congregating at the workplance entrance for a banter of ciggie. These moments bring us face-to-face, viz-a-viz, in an organic solidarity. We can be next to each other, but not in each other's faces.
How can architecture script these brief encounters?
Viz-a-viz is a test-bed for social moments through drawing a line that's extruded, chamfered, subtracted, folded and lofted. These architectural operations along this line, and the social encounters within them, are dazzled with the colour of the zeitgeist: high viz.
A mirrored surface reflects these activities into the ether. Seeing ourselves, reflected, also makes us see ourselves as something larger.