Electronica is a broad, loosely defined musical genre that encompasses a wide range of electronic and electronic-influenced music. Its emergence has introduced a new way of listening: unlike traditional music, such as classical, audiences can jump, walk, shout, and move freely while listening. Some electronica is still suited to quiet, focused listening, but in many cases, performers and audiences interact more openly, and people can enter and leave the venue without disturbing others. The boundary between performer and audience becomes blurred, and the audience often becomes part of the performance itself. People who visit electronica venues come not only to hear famous artists, but to dance, drink, and connect with others in a festival-like atmosphere. This project proposes an electronica venue that captures these blurred boundaries between behavior and appreciation.

We do not live in a blank, neutral space. We inhabit a world of layered places, marked by both light and shadow. In his theory of “heterotopia,” philosopher Michel Foucault argues that among these places there exist “other” spaces—absolutely different sites positioned outside what society defines as routine or normal. Such resisting heterotopias are continually created, destroyed, and transformed, cracking the notion of normality like mutations in a biological system. Cemeteries, libraries, and movie theaters, now considered ordinary and fully absorbed into society, were once typical examples of heterotopia. By contrast, the club remains a stimulating, sometimes controversial heterotopic space. Yet because it arises from fundamental human desires, it is seen as necessary and impossible to erase. Rather than treating heterotopia as a dark underside to be removed, this project proposes a new “mutant” form that can be more smoothly integrated into the city.