Domestic space constitutes a complex assemblage of social, material, and technical conditions that frame the spatial practices of everyday life. It structures the most intimate modes of human interactions, texturing our identities. In this project, I attempt to reframe how people live together through unpacking a new organizational strategy, and study closely the aspect of social formations of home. This is a multi-unit social housing project sited in the Midtown Houston, Texas.
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A solid straight line in plan divides a plane into two parts, one and the other.
A dotted line insists a potential pervasion. A wall becomes a door.
You are welcomed to my region. If I will.
A dotted line insists a potential pervasion. A wall becomes a door.
You are welcomed to my region. If I will.
An extruded dotted line becomes a transluscent screen, as I interpret it
Sometimes transparent, Sometimes almost opaque: a hide-and-seek in the air,
An interactive play of domestic life in the urban stage.
You are allowed to see me. When the play begins.
Two lines, an acute angle, claims a territory.
Like a shield that conceals the private domesticity.
Two dotted lines, an acute angle, extruded, however
‘Domestic shield’ becomes a curtain, for stage or for a bay window in the master bedroom.
Letting in daylight, noice, and cityscape, and audiences. If I will.
Two vertical screens, two acute angles: distinct readings from elevation and plan.
Pauses the growth of all the perpendicular, rectangle, cuboids in the urbanscape.
They are the backdrop in gray.
A stage for my special stage.
Ground Floor Plan
A free assemblage of pre-fabricated living cells on a open ground. Each cell is designed with prototypical furnitures. A
tension is created through this sort of juxtaposition between ‘designed prototypes’ and ‘collective assemblage’.
Typical Floor Plan
Tectonic Thesis: Urban Facade
Tectonic Thesis: Domestic Facade
Longitudinal Section
Transverse Section
A juxtaposition of the urban screen, and the domestic frame. A domestic play on a urban stage covered loosely with a curtain. A maximum possible transparency is given to the domestic side with various size of glazing windows assigned according to the module’s program. The project is almost an literal translation of the rituals of daily life - eating, sleeping, working bathing and gathering, and therefore generates a new spatial codes and social ecologies.
