The Barbican's residential shutters were designed as a practical element — sun control, privacy, ventilation. But open at varying angles, they become something else: a record of a hundred small decisions made independently by the people who live behind them. Each shutter at a different position, each shadow landing differently on the concrete below — the building's surface becoming a kind of notation, not of the architect's intention but of the residents' choices. Shot close, that human irregularity within an otherwise rigidly ordered system becomes the whole point.
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