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A SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE

A second year project

 

This single-family house (for two parents, two kids and a baby) is an exercise on fluid space. The rooms, strictly speaking, do not exist and are replaced by the five functions of a home: resting, eating, getting together, washing and the hypothesis function. The latter is a phrase from a writer chosen by each student. Each function fills a square-shaped surface and follows its own spatial criteria. The relations between the five, the intersections and inclusions, are adjusted by an organigramme (organization chart) that is defined according to the hypothesis.

 

My hypothesis is a poem by Betti Alver:

 

Why, beginning day, are you called workaday?

I declare each of your seconds a miracle

Startled by the beauty this morning, too.

 

Apart the elaboration of my organization chart, the hypothesis function expresses itself by creating exterior spaces or inside extensions for other functions giving those more qualities. It also sets up devices that catch the natural sunlight that varies according to the moments that make up a day.