The Hoarder Next Door

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Interior Architecture Design Portfolio

THE HOARDER next door

Clinic for Compulsive Hoarders and Exhibition

a collection of design and creative works by KWANKU KANG

THE HOARDER next door

Clinic for Compulsive Hoarders and Exhibition

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PROLOGUE SITE DEMOGRAPHIC CONCEPTUAL DRAWING CONCEPT MODEL PROGRAM LIMIT OF VISUAL ANGLE ANALYSIS

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PROLOGUE Compulsive hoarders live in terrible conditions. These are people who have lost their homes and lives to hoarding. I want hoarders up and down the country to realize that they are not alone. Hoarding disorder has been recognised as distinct psychological condition since 2013. Despite the official recognition, hoarders are still living with the shame and secrecy of hoarding. According to the Institute of Psychiatry, up to three million people are suffering. It is approximately one in 20 people in the United Kingdom a hoarders, and there are only few places that they can turn for help. There is 87 years old Olive who has lives in the three bedroom semidetached council house in Brighton since 1933. Her home is so full that she is forced to spend most of her day outside. The inside of her house is full to the brim with thousands of plastic bags, old furniture, and clothes. And she thinks that she doesn’t hoard, she just keep stuff which will be used again. She cannot cook or use the bathroom home, so she gets her meals from the Community Centre where she also washes. She has never married nor had children, so she has no family to support her. She doesn’t want to show her place to anybody. She has lived in this house virtually all of her life, but now she is unable to access most of the rooms due to her hoarding. Each night she climbs the pile of her hoarding to get to bed. She has recycled since the war and has been in conflict with the authorities on it for decades. Her constant recycling is distracting her from clearing. The vast amount of recycling to sort through is mostly tins and packaging that she picks up from the street. Even she is doing recycling, she still want to keep, and it is the problem. With this problem, she is having depression and she wants some help now. \ . \ \

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3><?D;8BE5 ^>1A45AB About Compulsive hoarding Compulsive hoarding is the behavior that unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment. This behavior has been associated with health risks, impaired functioning, economic burden, and adverse effects on friends and family members. It can limit activities such as cooking, cleaning, moving through the house, and sleeping. It could also potentially have the risk of causing fires, falling, poor sanitation, and other health concerns.

Differences between colleting and hoarding Collecting and hoarding may seem similar, but there are distinct characteristics between them. Collecting involves actively seeking and acquiring specific things that form at least from the perspective of the collector and an interesting set. Hoarding involves items that are not especially meaningful to the person who is hoarding them. The hoarding items hold no true meaning or value. Most hoarders are disorganized and their homes are in disarray. Most collectors store their items systematically and or have their collections on display.

Hoarding items Hoarding behavior is often severe because hoarders do not recognize it as a problem. They hold onto a large number of items that most people would consider useless or worthless, such as Junk mail, old catalogs and newspapers, Worn out cooking equipment, Things that might be useful for making crafts, Clothes that might be worn one day, Broken things/trash, Freebies or other promotional products, Animals.

Treatment Their home is cluttered to the point where many parts are inaccessible and can no longer be used for intended purpose. For example, beds that cannot be slept in and Kitchens that cannot be used for food preparation, and fridge is filled with rotten food. Their clutter and mess is at a point where it can cause illness, distress, and impairment. As a result, they do not allow visitors in, such as family and friends or repair and maintenance professionals, because the clutter embarrasses them, and often feeling depressed or anxious due to the clutter.

Hoarders exhibit impaired sensitivity to their own and others’ emotions, and conversely, relate the world around them by forming attachments to possessions rather than to people. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a commonly implemented therapeutic intervention for compulsive hoarding. The therapists help the patient to discover why hoarders are so compelled to hoard, and learn to organize the possessions in order to decide what to discard. Separating their items helps the hoarders to develop the decision-making skills. Psychiatric hospitalization is need for serious hoarders. Having community life shows the hoarders that they are not alone,

and it is of help to overcome their melancholia. Recycling their items helps them to recognize what is useful and what is useless. Craft offers intensive, short-term treatment to the patients who struggle with psychiatric, emotional and/or behavioral problems. Therefore, upcycling craft with the recycled items will help hoarders’ emotional and behavioral problems, and also it helps hoarders to recognize how not used items change to useful objects.

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Hoarder

Olive

Hoarder

Jane

Hoarder

Jeff

Hoards

Hoards

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Plastic bags Old furniture Clothes Recycling wastes

Clothes Blankets Old cook tools Recycling wastes

Lots of shiny knobs Vast collection of tins Scientific machines Antique music roll and other wastes

Emotion

Emotion

She feels that the item she hoards will be used again some day, and she has depression with the hoards. She doesn’t want anybody to see her palce.

She feels worry and upset about her hoards.

Turning Point Turning Point Her husband hasn’t come back after the war. She does not have any family.

Treatment Charaty helps to make small warehouse in front of her house and Olive recycled her items.

Emotion He feels something wrong with him which loss the other people got He has dual personality which is between inside and outside space.

She is single mom, and she used to have four jobs, because she needed money to raise her daughter.

Turning Point

Treatment

He lost everything after his divoce, even the contact of his two children.

Psychologist talk to her to convince her to let go, but she still doesn’t know what she wants. Psychologist suggest election for letting items go.

Treatment His Hoards

Local Warehouse

Separating Items Auction Charity shop Rubbish bin

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CONCEPTUAL DRAWING As the research of hoarders showed, hoarders have self-alienation behavior. They don’t invite anyone to their house, because the clutter and mess in the house embarrass them and they don’t want any interference from other people. Thus, they cover all windows of their house with the curtains. This behavior makes the situation worse. Therefore, they need to be open about their behavior with other people, and cognitive behavior therapy will handle their problems. Hoarders’ treatment as separating their items become performance art, and it will be open to the public people by gap space. The gap space will be small and filled with glass, so hoarders will not see what public people talking and how they act. However, they know the treatment space is open to the public people. This is the solution for compulsive hoarders as an interior design approach.

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CONCEPT MODEL When there are a straight narrow corridor and people passing, people nomally feel uncomfortable to stop in the middle of the way. The reason is because there is not enough space. Therefore, by adding gap spaces in the rectillnear corridor, users can stay in that space. The exhibition space in this project will apply these facts, so the public people pass through the corridor and they can go to the gap space when they want to stay more time for the exhibition.

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SITE MAP

STOUR SPACE /

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FIRST FLOOR MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

7 Roach Road, Hackney Wick, London, E3 2PA

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EXISTING SITE PLAN Hackney Wick used to be an industrial hub which leds to heavy pollution. The street was in a mess, and the buildings were old. However, factories moved to another town and it became clean and attractive area. The buildings are coverd in beautiful graffiti by artists, and there are a lot art studios. Stour Space is located in Hackney Wick, next to the olympic park. As Hackney Wick became clean and beautiful area, the hoarders will escape from the mess in their house by hoarding treatment.

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CAFE

ACCOMODATION

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DOCTOR’S

WAREHOUSE

OFFICE

PUBLIC

EXHIBITION

HOARDING ITEM SHOP HOARDER’S LOUNGE

HOARDER PROGRAM

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Warehouse - When hoarders decide to have the cognitive behavior therapy, they move their hoarding items here. They separate their items which they want to keep and which they want to throw away. The therapy can be seen from public as treatment.

Exhibition - The behavior that hoarders separate their items is open to the public as hoarder’s treatment. There are some spots that the public can stay and see inside of the hoarder’s therapy room through peep holes. The bedroom and bathroom are not seen for hoarders’ private.

Accomodation - Hoarders stay in the warehouse and it has a bed room and a bathroom. This space is not seen through the peep holes on the wall.

Cafe - The main users of this space is the public, and it is allowed to eat, drink, talk and have a rest here.

Doctor’s Office - Hoaders consult their hoarding problem and the doctor charts a programs for the therapy. Psychotherapy is also given to severe compulive hoarders here.

Hoarding Item Shop - The items that hoaders decided to discard during their therapy is displayed on the corridor walls for the public. Therefore, the public can see and buy the goods in the exhibition area.

Hoarders Lounge - This space is for hoarders that they can have a rest without any interference, and it is possible to meet their visitors here. Hoarders also do discussion therapy here everyday.

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LIMIT OF VISUAL ANGLE A pair of healthy human eyes has a total field of view of approximately 200 degrees horizontally about 120 degrees of which are shared by both eyes, giving rise to what's known as binocular vision and 135 degrees vertically. This is due to the fact that both of our eyes are positioned more or less on the front of our heads, as opposed to the sides. The angle and size of the peephole can change the limit of the vision. This way, the angle of the wall and the peephole can make veiled space. Furthermore, the veiled space protects hoarder’s privacy.

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PUBLIC VISION & HOARDER’S PERSONAL BOUNDARY The wall direction is designed for viewing of the public, and they can see the inside space of hoarder’s therapy warehouses through the peepholes. The walls are designed for hoarders’ privacies, and the direction of the peepholes makes visual limit. Therefore, the public can not see hoarders’ bedrooms and bathrooms.

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INTERIOR CIRCULATION DIAGRAM This space has territoriality for hoarders, and the circulation of hoarders and the public is differentiated. As secret doors are installed in each hoarder’s therapy warehouse, the doctor can visit to check hoarders’ condition and the progress they make.

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EXHIBITION CAFE KITCHEN THERAPY WAREHOUSE PUBLIC LOUNGE

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PUBLIC LOUNGE

EXHIBITION

THERAPY WAREHOUSE

PUBLIC TOILET HOARDER’S LOUNGE

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STORAGE

DOCTOR’S OFFICE

RECEPTION

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Hoarder Lounge

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HOARDER STORY

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There are two different doors. One is for Hoarders to get treatment and the other one is for the Public who want to see how hoarders get the treatment. When hoarders visit here, they go downstairs to consult a doctor and the doctor will plan the period of staying. They get treatment as separating their items to keep and to discard. Each treatment room has a secret door and doctors visit the patients through the door to check their progress and give counselling. There is a lounge on the top floor for hoarders and they can have a rest here without any interference. They can also meet visitors or other hoarders there to communicate.

My daughter keep saying that i have a problem with full of items at home. I don’t think i am a hoarder, I will prove that I am not a hoarder with a doctor here.

These people have the same habit as me, and they are haveing hoarding treatment. I am confused.. I maybe a hoarder.

FIRST FLOOR

The doctor said that I start with 2 weeks satying treatment. My daughter will also visit and help me here, so I decided to have a treatment.

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GROUND FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

Have a look. These people are hoarders and that is how they get treatment. Isn’t that interesting?

GROUND FLOOR

Hi, Carlos. This is the place that i told you last time. You collet entiques, so i thought you will be interested in this place. Let’s have a look.

Look at this picture. The items they hoard seems rubbish. However, those items on the shelves are that the hoarders decided to discard. They are beautiful. You can actually buy those items, if you would like.

PUBLIC STORY There is a public lounge and care at the enterance. It is allowed to see how hoarders having their treatment through the peepholes on the wall. On the left side of the building, there is a photo and video exhibition about hoarding. Moreover, he items which hoarders decide to discard is displayed and the public is allowed to buy the items during their viewing the exhibition. C^\ ^>.A \A =\ C >>A

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MODEL MAKING

THE HOARDER next door a collection of design and creative works by KWANKU KANG BA Honours Interior Architecture +44 7478 321 040 kokingkwan@naver.com

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