A House with Blended Boundaries II

Knowlton school of architecture

Exit review project

Fall 2019

Instructor: Curtis Roth

Using Revit’s component library and the house builder’s catalog’s special features collection of rooms (Non-essential for living), an assembly is produced as a representation of a house that is no longer a place only to maintain life but where the acts of daily life are removed from specific rooms and can happen across based on occupant’s preferences. In this project absurd humor is created through making present both the house builder’s catalogue and Revit in seemingly irreconcilable moments where we are unable to rely on familiarities made through use and habit.

The relationship of object and architecture collapses opening a gray space between architecture and furnishing where a room is defined through its furniture made from architectural elements. Occupants shower in the closet, sit on the stairs and look out the window, sleep on a wall and hang their stuff from a door knob and spaces change their original function at times to accommodate the needs to maintain life. Demise of the wall as room separator offers flexibility in transitions where a house is no longer known as a place of privacy and individuality.