This seminar approaches accessibility through a formal lens–examining architectural form as it operates on the threshold of human abilities. Moving beyond prescriptive standards and the notions of acceptable minimums or generous maximums, the seminar aims to expand the understanding of human abilities and their range, while critically investigating the origins and methods through which accessibility standards have been developed.

From these two analytical trajectories, the seminar seeks to map out latent formal projects–a series of case studies developed by students–that connect the disciplinary interests of architecture with the objectives of accessibility.

It explores the reciprocal relationship between form and its receiving senses, and how each threshold condition affects the legibility of the other. Ultimately, the seminar asks: How can we critically engage with and appreciate the unexplored formal projects that emerge and operate at the threshold–the moment when one of our senses reaches its limit?