An internet café, veiled in skins of digital glitch-induced anonymity, presents differing interpretations to the passer-by, the Google Street View car and the satellite. Learning from known glitches of mainstream surveillance practices, the architecture deconstructs itself digitally using techniques of countershading, algorithm baffling, and photogrammetric disturbance, in a bid to offer unrivalled privacy to its inhabitants.⠀
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With the rise of the right to be forgotten, amidst increasing governmental and corporate surveillance, privacy has become a pillar of contemporary US culture. Aspiring to interrogate traditional ways of seeing and inhabiting cities, this project questions how architectural design might soon come to be driven by the blind spots of surveillance technologies. Through translations and mistranslations of both digital and physical space, the building corrupts both analogue and digital modes of viewing, inducing glitches that dismantle the veracity of what is seen.