Shaz Nasiri

Be+Twixt

Today, new dwellings are becoming smaller and smaller. The functionality of these contracted spaces is becoming less and less hospitable as well. My thesis proposes a new kind of “living” space: one counterintuitively created by reducing the occupiable area even more, contracting it to the scale of the human body, and creating a transformable, transportable, and personalized space. Existing somewhere between a garment and a room, this portable, adjustable environment will augment our shrinking dwellings, permitting us to travel outside of our micro-condos — allowing a recovered sense of privacy, a connection to nature, and, on occasion, connections to one another.

Advisor: Laura Miller