Ian Wille Y5
The Keyhole Society Formed within a realm of bureaucratic inefficiencies, the project subtly engages with the rich architectural context of Rome. Designing and building through loopholes, the society’s site becomes a testing and manufacturing ground for experimental architectures. The society’s projects are published surmising its strategies and accomplishments through an annual catalogue. The aim of the society is to provide an alternative to contemporary building control; wherein over cautious authorities restrict the architectural movements of individuals via institutionalised restraints.
The site, the heart of the project, builds upon the crumbling remains of the ex-SNIA industrial site. The treatment of the site buildings layers of history by employing design strategies to encase and stabilise the industrial remnants. The site creates various pathways for different relationships to the project. Designers, manufacturers and participants of the scheme follow hidden pathways and areas disguising the real intent of the project, whilst publicans or officials have a path of obfuscation and exposition presented to them. This splits the architecture into a narrative of intent and direction, selectively revealing itself over time.
