ARH 609: Design Studio 1
Instructors: Monica Tiulescu & Alex Neyman
Project Type: Commercial
Location: San Francisco, Ca.

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In every group of humans, there have been members who modified their bodies. The reasons behind their choices vary widely, even within a single society. In many cultures around the world, social status, group affiliations, and wealth are advertised with jewelry and adornments; in others, deeper meanings are behind the punctures, scars, and tattoos they wear. However, all one must do is look at society’s present definition of aesthetic to discover that almost all of us engage in some form of body molding or other. For instance, it would be hard to find a woman these days who doesn’t have her ears pierced, and one of the most involved, long-term, and committed types of body modification, bodybuilding, is not often even considered out of the ordinary. People will be attracted to the building due to the facilities that meets people’s needs in this category. Moreover, there are many exhibitions and performances to sell and introduce variation of modifying human body.