What are the consequences of being perceived as “other”? What is it like to be a square in a world of circles?

Across cultures and throughout history, fear of difference has been repeatedly weaponized to justify exclusion, discrimination, and violence. From social customs to institutional systems, mechanisms of othering continue to shape daily life. While the targets may change—whether through racial segregation, ethnic bias, nativism, political persecution, or the marginalization of gender and LGBTQ+ identities—the underlying condition remains the same: the construction of difference as a means of exclusion.

[Un]hinged proposes a memorial to both historic and ongoing injustices rooted in this process of othering. Suspended above a lake by a cantilevered tensile structure and accessed through a slender bridge, the pavilion creates a physical and emotional separation from the surrounding landscape. The inhabitable volume is formed by two distinct shells: an orthogonal outer enclosure and a spherical inner core. Between them, a transitional space houses civic exhibitions and installations, creating a dialogue between outward perception and inner identity. Through this layered spatial experience, the project invites reflection on the tensions between appearance and reality, belonging and exclusion, memory and action.