Scale is not neutral – it’s the difference between a kitchen table and a city block, between a family and a target. This thesis frames the architectural scale through the lens of spiciness, where it crosses categories, resists definition and refuses erasure. Tracing defensive architecture from the intimate to the territorial for communities whose presence is politicized and whose belonging is contested. Moving through thresholds of increasing heat, architecture ceases to shelter and begins to fight. This thesis argues that architecture is most powerful not through scale, but in its willingness to salt the earth.
