Commissioned by RACA — an interdisciplinary Copenhagen studio founded by graphic designer Pulsk Ravn and architect Johan Carlsson — this site-specific installation directly engaged with the platform’s focus on “social design” and 1:1 scale architectural experimentation. RACA operated as a live laboratory, seeking to challenge traditional spatial codes and transform the gallery audience from passive spectators into active actors. Hawrysio’s intervention provided a radical response to this mandate, targeting the very threshold of the institution itself.

The installation consisted of a temporary plasterboard and timber-frame wall erected 12 inches inside the façade of the gallery. This structural barrier completely blocked the main entrance and front window, effectively sealing the interior off from the street and denying the public its standard point of access. The pristine, unblemished surface of the plasterboard faced outwards toward the entrance, while the raw timber skeleton faced inward, visible only to those who made it past the threshold.

Once construction was finished, Hawrysio used the gallery’s existing door to physically break through the plasterboard wall. This act of disruption forced a crude, jagged aperture through the clean geometry of the partition. To enter the exhibition, visitors were compelled to step through this excavated breach, navigating a tightly compressed architectural boundary to confront the exposed, industrial framework on the reverse side. By reconfiguring the physical parameters of entry, the work subverted the clean neutrality of the institutional space, forcing a visceral dialogue between the human body, the built environment, and the public street.