For my first project, I was assigned a specific ritual to research and I chose exercise. After doing research, I found the benefits of exercising and how it affects each individual not only physically but also psychologically. From that research, we had to come up with two verbs that represented the ritual and I chose, to expand and to support. Expand meaning the expansion of the lungs while exercising and support for our mental and physical health that exercising provides. With the given measurements of the space, I created a site where people can walk through to experience the expansion and support by being able to interact with the material as well as creating the material to look like the room is expanding as well.
The middle of the space progressively gets tighter and more squished while the entrance and exit expands so that the individual encountering the space feels the stretch and expansion within the site.
