Matters of Disposal

THE TRINITY CONSERVATORY

Humans are just a tiny portion of all material objects that make and fill the city.

Engaging a paradigm of empty architecture within New York’s Trinity Center, Matters of Disposal reimagines this Neo-Gothic monument to speculative real estate as a conservatory for objects no longer in use, institutionalizing object value beyond hyper-consumptive capitalism. The conservatory operates through a hybrid of an object distribution system and Neo-Gothic surface articulations that alter the conceptual and material edges between three actants: the human, the building, and the object.

The latent edges of this new monument, engage the calling power of objects, their edges and their stylistic representations, to implicate that discarded value is the contemporary condition. The human, the object, and the building are valorized as assets released from the hyper consumptive ecology that occupies the city.

Collaboration with Matthew Kohman

Empty Architecture: New Hybrids Design Studio by Ferda Kolatan & Caleb Ehly / University of Pennsylvania

Featured in Pressing Matters X, 2021 Weitzman School Year End Show