Category | Research

Location | n/a

Site surface | n/a

Timeline | 2021

Status | Conceptual

Software | Revit, Adobe Suite

Artistic Techniques | Paper Sowing. Dry Press, Stamping, Hand Drawing

Type | Academic

 

BRIEF

Exploration of “domesticity as an ecology of relationships between households” and communal interactions in the urban and natural environments.

The domestic action performed around an architectural element chosen was : OPEN/CLOSE of doors and windows.

An investigation of the action’s spatial, cultural and systemic contexts lead to the development of a code to illustrate “the relationships between people, materials, architectural elements and non-human actors”.

The final composition of this research is the Cosmograph: it “summarises the studied relationships and their agency within the city and the natural environment.”

(LSBU, Architectural Studio 03, 2021-22)

 

INITIAL STUDIES

Dance with my front door.

Study of my relationship to spacial problems in my home.

Threaded diagrams: front, back and transfer onto tracing paper.

 

The culture of the inside.

Survey on the meaning of home / open and closed spaces.

Picture that shows “home”.

[Selection of pictures taken by people part of the survey of what they call home]

 

The home must be part of a “poetic relationship to reality”.

(Norberg-Schulz, in Nylander, 2002)

Memorabilia, plants and people contribute to my sense of home.

Following the survey on the sense of home, Timothy and I analysed the data and worked on connecting the individuals and their perceptions of “home” and stories of how their home is theirs and how they open and close it to guests.

 

Almanac collecting artefacts made in the process of this research.