MDes Interior Design School of Design

WEIYI XIA

The Coming Out project aims to respond to and critique contemporary society's understanding and inclusion of gender and space. The significance of queer theory also lies in its challenge to traditional gay culture. Because it emphasizes gender diversity and deconstructive concepts of "gender" and binary gender systems, "gay" identity cannot be established, homosexuality is no longer dependent on the heterosexual hegemonic system, and "gay" identity is limited by the heterosexual identity, it is one of the binary. More importantly, queerness challenges all traditional values. It also means opening and closing the cabinet. Opening the closet is a way of revealing your sexuality to society and going to the new world. Closed cabinets meant isolation from society, and no outside interference with anti-capitalist surveillance.

We have accepted the idea that architecture maintains a matrix of patriarchal and heterosexual norms. The project revolves around people who are excluded from normative discourse and are referred to as “queer” in a broader context. It asks how we can begin to think beyond accepted structures — beyond structures of dualism and opposition. By tracing the historical context of specific events, places, and urban areas that define the LGBTQI2+ movement and culture, this study remains grounded in cool identity while revealing an attitude of defiance and transformation. Often out of necessity and survival, outside the boundaries of heterosexuality. By analyzing internal/external rhetorical boundaries, the project questions how social responses to queerness under the surveillance of modern capitalism create new meanings in diversity, openness, contradiction, and debate.

Contact
W.Xia1@student.gsa.ac.uk
Works
Queer people
Queer history
Birth and Rebirth
Bodies in architecture
Plan of the whole space
Outcomes
The Coming Out project aims to respond to and critique contemporary society's understanding and inclusion of gender and space. The significance of queer theory also lies in its challenge to traditional gay culture. Because it emphasizes gender diversity and deconstructive concepts of "gender" and binary gender systems, "gay" identity cannot be established, homosexuality is no longer dependent on the heterosexual hegemonic system, and "gay" identity is limited by the heterosexual identity, it is one of the binary. More importantly, queerness challenges all traditional values. It also means opening and closing the cabinet. Opening the closet is a way of revealing your sexuality to society and going to the new world. Closed cabinets meant isolation from society, and no outside interference with anti-capitalist surveillance.

Queer people

queer population category classification

Male to female

Transgender

Transgender men, who are biologically male, change their biology to become female through a series of medical or surgical procedures. Starting from the head, I directly used the self-portrait of Claude Cahun, an artist in real life. Her works are self-portraits that examine and challenge the concepts of gender and identity. His works often present a state of transformation or transition. It has a mask in its hand that I want to show that blurring the line between female and male, hiding or exposing oneself behind the mask. The whole body I changed the structure of the male body, the bottom picture is the overall body of the male body, through the way of surgery in the male chest filled with breast, the lower body of the male organs, surgical cutting, at the same time taking anti-growth drugs, to stop or slow the growth of male hormones and organs.
transgender

female to male

A transgender woman is a person who is biologically female and, through a series of chemical or scientific methods, changes her biology to become male. For example, the middle position of this person is a female chest, through the way of surgery to cut the breast, the chest becomes as smooth as a male, the private part of the lower part of the body is installed prosthetic phallus and other changes, this person not only wants to change their heart and spirit into a male, but also to change their physiology into a male. But one thing that's changing and we can see that is bone development, women tend to have smaller bones and men tend to have larger bones than women.
Gay

gay (man)

A gay man, a scene where two boys fall in love. The reason why the top and bottom use the heads of two different types of animals is to show that the same is true in gay men, although they are both male in physical structure but psychologically and behaviourally there is always one who is more female and one who is more male. Actually according to my observation and research, I think we heterosexual queer and difference in the life is not very big, may be the biggest difference is that in the process of courtship will suffer from strange eyes, have to consider the factor of society and the reality, more layers surface is derived from psychological or other stress, and different sex life.
Lesbian

lesbian

Lesbians, this picture I use divides the two parts, the upper part I use the giraffe and the female body has said lesbians in more feminine, and it is the opposite of having partial male body but actually defined as the group of women, (because according to my survey and observed that although lesbian is two girls in love, However, from the perspective of personality and behavior, there is always one who is more female, while the other is more neutral or male. The combination of the two halves of the body indicates their union and relationship. In the middle, I vaguely used some pictures of lesbian sex to express their scenes of making love.

Queer history

The world “queer”has had many different meanings in different times and places.it first referred to strangeness or difference ,then became abusive ,and has since been redefined as a positive term.It can be used as an umbrella term to refer to non-heterosexuals ,or it can challenge gender and through different ways of thinking and acting

queer of history

Birth and Rebirth

the anatomy of the architectural living being.

site analysis

background research

bsckground analyasis

Bodies in architecture

mind map

uterus-sleep chamber study

the first space in our lives is to live in womb.The sense of uterine encapsulation enables us to sleep in the most secure state,so i like the uterus fitting into the space to a sleep chamber.This sleep chamber has the same functions as the uterus.It can sense cells and detect the movement in the body.The whole package is like skin, which automatically contracts and expends according to the person's sleeping position.

Digestive system

this is the digestive system of the whole body,which is responsible for taking in ,transporting, digesting food and absorbing nutrients and excreting waste.Into the space, i hope the digestive system can generate oxygen in the space, and combine the surrounding environment and foregin materials into electricity
Function of organs

Urinary system

Function of organs

Urinary system

Bodies in architecture

Body reorganization and regeneration

How does organ function apply to space

Nerves system

The nervous sytem covers the whole corner of the house,which is like a hidden pipe covering the whole space.It can make the house have consciousness and consciousness, and the nervous system of the house can feel the thoughts living in it.

nervers system

The nervous system of human body covers every corner of the body, and all the nerves of human body can be controlled by the brain.If the human body is modeled into the spatial relationship.the nervous system can make the house a place for sentient beings

lung-gas exchange

Lung-gas exchange

Plan of the whole space

Plan of the whole space

Outcomes