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Architecture and transparency – a combination which became a really important theme in my life. Talking about home and my feeling of being home has always been affected by the interaction of those two notions. Windows - layers out of transparent glass - make me feel connected with and one with the world (nature and people). Doors, walls and roofs may also lead to this kind of feeling by letting sounds into the space. During my individual research about architecture and transparency within the theme of home I started to visualise this interaction of notions by building models - representing light. In the beginning it was electric light shining through a thin layer of white paper representing a house where the roof was sewn together with wire to symbolise the importance of a closed and non-transparent roof for my feeling of being safe and protected. Trying to build something without the use of electricity but instead natural daylight I came up with a repetitive structure which I formed through stacking cardboard shapes ontop of each other. The structure involves gaps which will get wider or smaller depending on the individual perspective on it. Through the different colours of the two cardboard sides (red and white) it also reflectes an interesting pinkish tone on the white elements.
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Carrying on with this idea of structure in a more social aspect in mind I devolped a structure which would allow people to walk through and experience transparency by dealing with open and closed spaces in a physical way. The scale would also enable a group of people to maybe live and create their own spaces within in this structure. Further it would even be imaginable to use those elements to stretch a roof above making the place beneath a safer one for people possibly living in there. By doing this it could for example become an optional temporary home for refugees or homeless poeple. Thinking about the material it would be very important to choose a material which is affortable, maybe able to be packed up, shipped and reassembled in locations globally to stay flexible in function and usage.
My very personal meaning of home: transparency and safety
First model: The transparent paper house, paper, paste and wire
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