Sites Queer suggest recurrent themes in San Juan’s queer spaces: fragmentation, mobility, displacement, and ephemerality. Through them I seek to undo knowability, question normative structures, dispute architectural conventions, and confront architectural discourse. To do this, I generate certain gestures, such as removing the actual buildings and reimagining them as single marbles, imprinting out-of-bounds shapes onto the site’s surface for the marbles to occupy.

The models are also movable objects; they can be rearranged amongst themselves, creating new landscapes and topographies. Through their different heights and colors, they allow multiple and surprising readings, suggesting spaces of programatic ambiguity, as well as spaces that invisible to those outside of the queer circuit. These design decisions consider the importance of architecturally discussing queerness, while also acknowledging that queer spaces are at times strategically hidden as a way of protecting themselves.