STUDIO 01
INSTRUCTOR: PIPER BERNBAUM
"The project "Of Home + Habit" is an exercise of documentation and analysis. By dissecting your spatial surroundings, depicting your own routines, and reflecting on inhabitation, the aim is to create new forms and types of drawings that show spatial consequences and relationships. This project asks: how do we consider the “everyday” of architecture? And how can we convey the complexities of our lived lives."
Work-rest balance is defined by space and distance. During the pandemic, many students have had to adapt their bedrooms to the needs of online school. As a result, the bedroom has evolved from a space purely dedicated to leisure and rest into one where work and rest occupy the same space. We no longer have the privilege of spatially separating the two.
To divide the bedroom into two spaces, the Eastern wall is allocated to furniture and fixtures dedicated to work whereas the Western wall is dedicated to rest and leisure. In the photo essay, one can see how artificial lighting is essential in separating the two. However, in the third image, the spatial limitations of the bedroom are evident. Light from the work lamp spills towards the bed and emphasizes the proximity of these two spaces.
The section is cut laterally in an effort to capture the cramped feeling of these overlapping spaces. The analytical drawing examines the relationships between the workspace and the rest-place: What is hidden and revealed through artificial light? What role does furniture play in the function of the two spaces? How do they relate and how do they differ?
