Surveillance methods and technologies have become increasingly ambiguous in their integration into daily life, they mediate how individuals are imaged, monitored and processed into documented data shadows. Such imaging systems have altered the ways in which we navigate our physical and digital environments, particularly in the domestic setting. By developing architectural operations of countermeasure, the spatial image or capturability of the home can be actively resilient by negotiating its relationship with the ubiquitous digital surveillance state. Architecture as a mode of instrumentation can operate as a medium to reposition ideas of visibility and privacy through optical manipulation and obfuscation techniques, enabling new ideas of challenging agency in surveillance. The project reconsiders the domestic suburban landscape as a testbed for architectural resistance, where concepts of privacy not only independently aim to conceal but also actively control their mediated imagability. In manipulating the suburban residential module, the homes are transformed into sites of ambiguity, questioning the interactions between built space and methods of surveillance.

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