Project by Delaram Haghdel @delaramhaghdel
If the 1980s architecture of cocaine was defined by the fear of being seen, this new legalized typology is defined by the core idea of being perceived. The design is a “Playground of Interplay” and a “Complex World of Experiences” where the boundary between the coca plant, the maker, the substance, and the user is dissolved through a porous, sensory, and euphoric architecture. “"Night Fever”“ operates from the ”“Invisible Infrastructures of Cocaine”“ during the 80s to an ”“Architecture of the Spectacle”“ of a legalized future. The design moves from tracing systems of re-spatializing the ‘Invisible Infrastructure’ of the past to a ‘Visible Architecture’ of the present. The transition from research to design began with a single question: What happens to these spaces when the friction between the invisible and the visible is removed? If we move from the illicit to the legal, the architecture no longer needs to hide. By ”“legalizing”“ the site, the substance is liberated from the shadows.
