Project by Juke Jose @jukestaposition
The American suburban house undergoes transmutation from a fixed instrument of nuclear-family domesticity into a relational and re-formable home. Through Filipino spatial improvisation, drag (queer) kinship, and trans* methodology, the house is not simply updated but fundamentally reworked. Rooms are reassigned, thresholds become inhabited, and domestic life expands beyond the limits of fixed programs and biological kinship. Space is reorganized around chosen kinship, shared care, and porous boundaries, where queerness appears not as representation, but as a trace of disorientation through softened edges, shifting rooms, and spatial arrangements that refuse predetermination. Transitioning becomes both a change in state and a condition of ongoing change, where architecture moves from enforcing stability, (hetero)normativity, and privacy toward supporting fluid, improvised, and self-determined forms of living.
