© Moritz Broszat

Margin of Error

examines architectural environments in which nature, culture and their representation can no longer be clearly separated. The built environment is understood not as a neutral background, but as a system that produces images, directs behaviour and organises ways of looking.

Within these spaces, nature returns as construction: as fountain, surface, ornament or atmosphere. It no longer exists outside culture, but circulates through its architectural and visual forms. The presence of the human figure makes this structure visible. The subject occupies the space, while simultaneously being positioned and defined by it.

The title borrows a statistical term for the interval of uncertainty surrounding an asserted value. Here, the margin describes the distance between a place and the ideal it projects: between architectural function and theatrical appearance, lived experience and mediated image.

Rather than opposing the real and the simulated as fixed categories, the work considers how they continuously produce one another. Architecture becomes an image; the image becomes an expectation; and that expectation begins to reorganise the spaces we inhabit.