Ideal Housing

Monday 28/09/2020

STUDIO FEEDBACK

- Rethink of the idea of having playground under the staircase. - Instead of a void, facade treatment could be applied on the upper area. - Make sure to have a reasoning behind every design decision. - Start drawing in section and detail. - Some area could be a wayfinding device.

REFLECTION

Things to work on: The top area still lacks of the architectural strategy. The top area needs to be redesigned with a proper programs.

Tuesday 29/09/2020 - Wednesday 30/09/2020

9.1. Bottom area narrow corridor.

8.9. Perspective view of the middle area.

REFLECTION

The “bottom” area has a narrow corridor that can relatively fit one person to walk through, two at most. It is designed with a high ceiling to make the occupants feel small (vulnerable).

The “middle” area is designed with a more open facade that allows a larger view towards the exterior. It is designed as a transitional space that allows people to react to the changes in a more subtle way.

Thursday 01/10/2020

WORKSHOP FEEDBACK

- Start producing the manifesto and refining the scenarios. - Do not overthink, keep what we can and redesign the parts we need to redesign. - Make sure the design has a reasoning and detailed enough to convey our manifesto.

REFLECTION

Things to consider: Focus mainly on the area that we want to show, the area that is well detailed and convincing. Refinement on the bottom area.

Friday 02/10/2020 - Sunday 04/10/2020

MANIFESTO

WHAT? To reflect our current psychological and mental condition in lockdown, to critique the lack of attention to the emotional and mental wellbeing of the people, and the government subjecting one system to the individuality of people and their distinct characteristics.Due to the confinement of humans during isolation, PSYARK acts as a vessel and artefact of human emotions. The ark amalgamates complex emotions through architecture that reflects the human condition, our sentiment, and feelings before the pandemic. This establishes order to gradually increase exposure to urbanity. Because everyone is different and expresses/experiences and reacts differently to certain situations, the Ark proposes users free will to gradually explore and experience emotional exposure.

WHY? Unable to experience a different range of emotions due to being isolated and suppressed Architecture these days lack emotional value and should therefore trigger emotional responses ‘What about SPACE?’, Modernists fail to accommodate these aspects as they generalise and simplify by being highly specific and curated. Brutalism and localism in tectonic expression To critique the solitude of the lockdowns by envisioning a method of escapism from our current isolated reality through a surrealistic and whimsical lens. ARCHIGRAM, they offered a seductive vision of a glamorous future machine age; however, social and environmental issues were left unaddressed. but a return to social integration

HOW? Control user experiences from “compression” to “release” through several architectural strategies. From confinement to embrace. Use of facade treatments and arrangements that reflect and curate the suppression of raw emotions and vulnerabilities. By having transitioning honest materials to more superficial materials. To firstly explore the vulnerability of the human condition feeling compressed with raw emotion, their sense of unfamiliarity and unease of raw emotion in an intimate setting; in order to examine and critique the confinement of humanity, and how to slowly expose to varying emotions. To enable an ease of transition and reintroduction, adaptation and acclimation to emotional fluctuations that one usually experiences. To slowly introduce more essential programs allowing the users to basic needs and emotional freedom To release the emotional weights and to ease into a more socially inclined emotional variation. To expose a user to socially prompted emotions through a more urban communal setting. For example, through colour and geometry?