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STUDIO 03
De-Coded: The Hidden Life of Domestic Practices
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Ioana Petkova, Valerio Massaro
Year 02
Carmen Calugarc, Emily Foster, Gina Virdi, James Low, James Kernot, Jervin Tiongson, Joseph Hannaghan, Kate Rutland, Nazahah Iqbal, Nuha Chowdhury, Owen Faunt, Owen Gosden, Rory Thrush, Rory Ward, Rudy Logue, Ted Elliott, Viktoria Petkova
Year 03
Anas Javid, Brisildo Bejti, Emily Schlatter, James (Jamie) Griffin, Kerim Dogus, Lewis Dodds, Lucile Bertolaso-Scarlett, Max Rayner, Suna Kim Ozankan, Syful Islam, Teddy Sharpe, Timothy Percival, Todd Fletcher Codes are all around us. They are analytical glimpses of a complex reality. The word code is used by ethnographers and anthropologists to describe how objects, spaces, rules and habits shape our thoughts, practices and feelings. Codes secretly dictate every aspect of our life. They reveal patterns, contradictions and meaning in mutual practices. Through the concept of de-coding, we set out to challenge our understanding of domestic space and explore different ways of living together.
The notion of home is not confined to the house. It is rather a collection of relationships between people, objects, and practices: an ecology defined as the household. Commonly used to conceive of assemblages of people within a quantifiable territory, households are a spatial concept defined by enclosures, codes and accessibility. We aimed to challenge these material and spatial conditions and foreground the multitude of entangled, ever-changing collections of emotional, physical, biological and cognitive ecologies that we call home.
For architects, anthropological thinking is a powerful tool to challenge universalistic assumptions in design. We aimed to develop the skills for a sensitive, analytical and nuanced understanding of domestic practices and to use them to design buildings that make us reflect on what a home is. By understanding the complexity of domestic ecologies we explored a design sensitivity that is rooted in consideration for otherness and encourages the coexistence of different ways of being. Our ambition was to imagine new ways of thinking, living, owning, sharing and building homes. We challenged familiar routines by researching and visualising the meanings and relationships of what we do at home and their wider consequences.
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Fig 01: Carmen Calugarc, Rory Ward, Viktoria Petkova Fig 02: Rory Thrush Fig 03: Rory Thrush
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THE (EVOLVING) HOME
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1:100 PLAN Mapping the layout of two apartments over time, the social spaces appear in flux and the private spaces static.
Adaptations such as adding showers, home offices, reading rooms, and larger kitchens occur, culminating in the two apartments joining to become one.
Personal circumstances such as moving in with a partner, working from home, and the growth of a small business are reflected in the evolution of the space.
1. Apartments 6 (top) and 7 (bottom) run parallel to each other on the east side of the complex. A single professional lives in each, both first-time buyers.
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2. In the first couple of years the residents take the time to learn the space. Apartment 6 spends more time bathing, deciding to bring a sofa into the room.
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3. Few changes occur. The apartments do not demand evolution, but are ready to evolve as the residents’ requirements change.
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4. Both residents begin to spend more time in their apartments.
Apartment 6 extends their dining table to double as a workspace. Apartment 7 makes plans to extend the kitchen, and installs a shower cubicle at the request of their new partner.
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5. The partner is spending more time at the apartment and the new kitchen island provides a new space for socialising.
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6. With the double income of the (now) couple in apartment 7, more time is spent socialising at the apartment. The living room is upgraded with new seating. and they put a couple of chairs in the bedroom to enjoy the morning light.
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7. In the late summer apartment 6 is vacated. The resident was exhaiusted of the city, and their health suffered.
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8. By the following spring, the dividing wall had been removed and renovations had been completed to add a dedicated office and extend again the kitchen. The living room gained more space and often hosted casual work meetings as well as evening parties.
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9. A small library corner is setup next to the dining table. The morning light provides a idyllic backdrop for a morning coffee.
The second bedroom often hosts guests and colleagues, the couple are already imagining the possibility of adding a sauna to the second bathroom.
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THE DOMESTICATION OF WATER
EXHIBITION IN THE WORKSHOP
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RUDY LOGUE - DESIGN 203 - MAY 2022 SUMNER ROAD THE DOMESTICATION OF WATER
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RUDY LOGUE - DESIGN 203 - MAY 2022
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Final Cosmograph
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Utilizing the Cosmograph we wanted to form a illustrative approach to Best describe what care means. We were aware that we chose a very Comprehensive subject so trying to cover as many aspects of care were important.
We created a hierarchy/Levelling system to be the best approach in showing these everyday responsibilities that not only have a enormous impact on our life’s, but also to the many others.
This showed us that Care goes beyond what we think of it reaches out universally all over the world.
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Fig 11: Rudy Logue Fig 12: James (Jamie) Griffin, Syful Islam Fig 13: Rudy Logue Fig 14: Rudy Logue Fig 15: Rudy Logue Fig 16: Nazahah Iqbal, Nuha Chowdhury Fig 17: Nuha Chowdhury Fig 18: Brisildo Bejti Fig 19: Anas Javid, Teddy Sharpe, Todd Fletcher
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