Project 1:GENDER? HOME!

‘Gender? Home !’ originates in the perpetual state of transcendental homelessness that women of the diaspora experience. This thesis aims to re-centre the periphery by creating a gender equitable dwelling.

A major factor for gender inequity in the dwelling is the harsh separations of the processes of production (productive labour) and social reproduction (affective labour) that happens under capitalist systems.

By exploring the opportunities offered by cooperative models when it comes to ensuring ownership and providing a flexible environment for methods of habitation that do not revolve around the nucleic family, I propose a programmatic ecology, a socio-economic and administrative system and lastly a spatial configuration that create equitable living for women of the periphery.

Spatial Sequencing: Building Organisation Systems

Working Method:

By analysing the mundane processes that women of the periphery engage with, in this case Making Onion Tea a spatial sequence is created.(1) Based on that a prototype (2) for habitation is created. Collective Kitchens and urban farming Terraces are combined to create a system for the Dwelling programme of the building .

Level 3 : Dwelling program

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Key:

1. Core A : Atrium

2. Collective kitchen A

3. Residential Core B

4. Residential Core C

5. Aeroponics and co-working terrace CD

6. Residential Core D

7. Urban farming terrace DA

Typical Plans: Connections

1:200 @ A1

Using the system of Urban Farming terraces and Collective Kitchens created, the four cores are connected. This enhances community building on the level of the development and provides easy access to all public facilities. The urban farming terraces have two layers, an aeroponics covered part and a more traditional planter part that is open to the elements.

Heat exchange chimney

Terrace farming

Communal kitchen Private dwelling Circulation System

Exploded Axonometric of Core A showcasing the circulation system and the ventilation chimney

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Family apartment: 108 m2

5. Dining, exposed towards the atrium and circulation area

6. Flexible Living area

The arrangement around the core of the living areas of the apartment creates opportunity for different divides of day and night. Minimal area is dedicated solely to circulation. The inhabitants can flow from space to space, from room to room if they so desire. The layout is flexible with minimal intervention needed for addition or subtraction of traditionally private areas.