Architecture

Elevated Paradox is a speculative project on the social issue of patterns of crime in the urban interior and its implications on the built environment. It aims at optimizing natural surveillance in the underutilized apartment easements of St Kilda, via a prototype of a hybrid space that brings the everyday activities of the local residents into the community. However, by attempting to create a utopian outlook in preventing crime through spatial design, a paradox is formed in the process, as this also creates spatial opportunity for crime and the criminal process. Incidentally, this creates a space where crime and surveillance find a way to co-exist.