{"687711":{"#nid":"687711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Now on display in the IMZ: Exhibitionist Storage","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library is proud to present \u003Cem\u003EExhibitionist Storage: Reimagining Civic Architecture through Self-Storage\u003C\/em\u003E at the Interactive Media Zone (IMZ), located on Price Gilbert\u2019s Grove Level, through Thursday, Feb. 12.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECreated by 14 senior studio undergraduate students in the School of Architecture, \u003Cem\u003EExhibitionist Storage\u003C\/em\u003E is curated and by architect and educator Hyojin Kwon. It brings together speculative architectural projects that ask an unlikely but urgent question: What if storage \u2014 one of the most ubiquitous, yet invisible building types in the contemporary American city \u2014 were treated as a civic architecture?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeveloped over the course of the Fall 2025 semester, the projects take self-storage facilities \u2014 often dismissed as banal, anonymous containers of excess \u2014 as a serious architectural and cultural subject.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEXHIBITIONIST STORAGE\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESelf-storage is among the fastest-growing architectural typologies in the United States, expanding rapidly along highways, suburban corridors, and urban edges. Despite their prevalence, these facilities are typically designed to disappear from public consciousness: blank fa\u00e7ades, inward-facing logics, and tightly controlled access.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey quietly absorb the material residue of contemporary life \u2014 objects displaced by mobility, precarity, inheritance, and accumulation \u2014 while remaining architecturally mute.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EExhibitionist Storage\u003C\/em\u003E challenges that muteness. The projects on view reframe self-storage as a civic architectural typology, asking what happens when storage is made visible, legible, and public. Rather than treating storage as a purely private utility, the students imagine it as a spatial, cultural, and urban instrument \u2014 one that negotiates tensions between accumulation and access, privacy and exposure, memory and value.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach project proposes a large-scale architectural intervention sited in Atlanta, hybridizing storage with public programs such as archives, exhibition spaces, markets, libraries, and civic platforms. In many of the proposals, the fa\u00e7ade becomes a critical interface: not a neutral envelope, but an active mediator between the hidden logics of storage and the public realm. Through sectional cuts, porous skins, and performative envelopes, storage is exposed, curated, and staged.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe physical exhibition pairs meticulously crafted models with drawings and digital media displayed across the IMZ\u2019s integrated screens. Visitors encounter not only formal explorations, but also arguments about time, care, and surplus embedded in architectural form. Storage is revealed as an architecture of deferral \u2014 spaces designed to hold things temporarily, often indefinitely \u2014 and as a system that reflects broader social and economic conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat distinguishes the exhibition is its insistence that storage is never neutral. The projects collectively argue that storage participates in shaping civic life, even when it claims not to. By making storage exhibitionist, the work proposes architecture as a tool for rethinking how societies manage excess, visibility, and value.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESituated within the Georgia Tech Library, the exhibition benefits from its setting. As visitors move through the IMZ, the projects are encountered not as isolated objects but as part of a living public environment, inviting casual engagement alongside sustained study. The Library becomes an apt host for work that treats storage as a form of cultural memory and civic infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EExhibitionist Storage\u003C\/em\u003E offers a compelling glimpse into how architectural education can critically engage everyday building types and reimagine them as sites of public imagination. In doing so, the exhibition asks viewers to reconsider the spaces that quietly hold our lives \u2014 and what it might mean to bring them into view.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESPECIAL THANKS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent participants:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EAmelia Barnard, Krishna Bhanderi, Delaney Bourg, Evelyn Bravo, Violet Cerbone, Doris Deng, Amy Cha, Alexis Lamar, Shain McHatton, Luca Maalouli, Mais Mehyar, Louise Richens, Yasmeen Smeirat and Carson Will.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWith support from:\u003C\/strong\u003E Julie Ju-Youn Kim, School Chair, School of Architecture, College of Design\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Exhibit on Grove Level of Price GIlbert through Thursday, Feb. 12"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Library is proud to present \u003Cem\u003EExhibitionist Storage: Reimagining Civic Architecture through Self-Storage\u003C\/em\u003E at the Interactive Media Zone (IMZ), located on Price Gilbert\u2019s Grove Level, through Thursday, Feb. 12.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Library is proud to present Exhibitionist Storage: Reimagining Civic Architecture through Self-Storage at the Interactive Media Zone (IMZ), located on Price Gilbert\u2019s Grove Level, through Thursday, Feb. 12."}],"uid":"28817","created_gmt":"2026-01-27 15:27:07","changed_gmt":"2026-02-12 16:47:40","author":"Jason Wright","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679104":{"id":"679104","type":"image","title":"IMZ_EXHIBITION_2.jpg","body":null,"created":"1769527723","gmt_created":"2026-01-27 15:28:43","changed":"1769527723","gmt_changed":"2026-01-27 15:28:43","alt":"Exhibitionist Storage","file":{"fid":"263223","name":"IMZ_EXHIBITION_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/01\/27\/IMZ_EXHIBITION_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/01\/27\/IMZ_EXHIBITION_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11381813,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/01\/27\/IMZ_EXHIBITION_2.jpg?itok=-j8kGD3B"}}},"media_ids":["679104"],"groups":[{"id":"145331","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"},{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"},{"id":"660380","name":"GT Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"194908","name":"Exhibitionist Storage"},{"id":"194909","name":"IMZ"},{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"185855","name":"GT arts"},{"id":"183499","name":"georgia tech arts"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}