Second Body

Second Body investigates the relationship between the organic and the prosthetic, asking how architecture might operate as an extension of the body rather than a neutral container for it. Developed through drawing, steel brazing, ceramic fabrication and model-making, the project explores the spatial consequences of dependency and adaptation.

The proposal takes the prosthetic armature as both a conceptual and structural device. Rigid frameworks and soft, bodily masses are treated as interdependent systems, producing an architecture that oscillates between enclosure and exposure. Instead of choreographing occupation through movement and bodily awareness, spaces are organised through suspended platforms, cavities and fragmented volumes that challenge the stability of the conventional floorplate.

Situated as a rehabilitation centre for prosthetic users, the project reimagines architecture as a “second body”: a prosthetic environment in which structure and enclosure continuously negotiate with one another. Rather than mimicking anatomy, the work translates bodily conditions (compression, tension, support and repair) into architectural form, proposing a building that is not simply occupied by the body, but actively participates in its transformation.

1:50 plan, overlay drawing, graphite on trace

1:50 plan, overlay drawing, graphite on trace

Explorative drawings, graphite on trace interrogating the relationship between the body and spatial systems,

Render, graphite on paper overlayed on internal image of fragment

Internal/external axo drawing, graphite on trace