Thesis Structure

thesis structure:

Thesis will be divided into 3 components : 

Part Exporation - 3 chapters of theory

Part Construction - 3 sites  S, M, L

Part Fiction - series of drawings to be accompanied throughout thesis

intro

Shared systems : Between the Apartment Building  and the Single Family House

Familiar and Unfamiliar

Thesis Structure:  Part Exploration, Part construction, Part Fiction

Methods and Scope

House as a character :Lars Lerup Drawings

Determining Scale

part exploration

Chosen Family

Who We Are: Redefine Family

Contact or non-contact species

Household Assembly

Canadian Statistics

Financials/Social Implications

“Yours and Mine”: Joined Living Systems

Cross-cultural 

Awkward Living Systems

How we live: Awkward Living Systems

What about the Inside?

Transparency

Voyeurism : Identifying the awkward things/Arousing Curiosity

Michael Wolf Photography

Diller+Scofidio Renfro’s “Overexposed” performance

Jorgen Leth’s film “Perfect Human”

Smaga+ Grzeszykowska exhibition “ The Plan”

The With drawing Room: Belonging and Alienation

Secrets

Beatrice Colomina Lit Review: Privacy and Publicity

The Un-Private House

Individual + Stranger / Individual + Family / Family + Stranger

Jean Baudrillard “ The Ecstacy of Communication”

Un Studio : Mobius House

Negotiating Boundaries

Speculating Interface

The Stair

The Section

Gifu Kitagata Project

The Wall

Front facades vs. Back facades : symmettry

Sou Fujimoto House N - Nested House

Sejima’s Toldeo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion

The Door

Front Door

Hidden Dimensions

Proxemics 

Gesture

Visual and Auditory Space through materials: Japanese and German

Skin/ Muscle Memory: Japanese gardens, Wright’s Old Imperial Hotel

Personal Belongings

 
          Territories

Surveillance and Responsibility

Degrees of Governance

Tent vs. Fortress

House as Camp, House as Battlefield

Identifying Markers

Measuring Distance and Value

Signage: Cultural symbols

Inukshuks and Warrior Wounds

Places of Transition

Lee Friedlander’s Photographs: The Overlap

The Porch

The Balcao

No Man’s land

The Shared Unit

Offering Alternatives to the Single Family House

part construction

Experiment

S Mapping a shared ecosystem: Apartment Study

         M Downtown: House/Park Study 

       

  L Townhouse Neighbors Study

Shared Living Systems: An EcoSystems Report

Outlines the extent that shared housing is a prominent contributor to creating a sustainable ecosystem in Canadian society. 

Canada- Ontario- KWC- East Galt-House

part fiction

The 7-12 person unit