kelsey m

Hey everyone! I'm Kelsey M., a third year architecture student at the University of Manitoba. I come from the small town of Stonewall, Manitoba, and moved to the city two years ago to go to school.
My passions in life lie within music and architecture and through design, I have become very interested in how the two are and can be connected. 

This year's studio has allowed me to realize that the way music can inform building is through an experiential quality. I have been encouraged to broaden the scope of my studies and discover how one can understand an environment by changing the way that they engage with and experience their surroundings.

First term I was interested in the number of people who used the bicycle as their main method of transportation in the area and attempted to understand the Exchange District through the bike. To begin to understand the bicycle's experience through the site, I wanted to create a device to capture it. I explored different ways of integrating a pin-hole and video cameras into my bicycle wheel to create a bike that operates as a camera - removing myself from the process. The bike's perspective of it's surroundings showed a prolonged duration of the site and a blurring of the larger picture around a focused fixed point which allowed me to discover small discrepancies and details of buildings within the Exchange District.

In second term, I have further explored the discrepancies found in the facades of the buildings and have become interested in the cracks of the facade and the possibilities they present in re-defining architecture and the idea of inhabitation. By exploring the materiality and spacial qualities of these cracks, I have created an installation to draw attention to the crack, allowing one to understand its relationship to the interior and exterior provoking one to question the possibilities of inhabitation within the walls - an intermediate, unknown space existing between the inside and outside world.