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

SHARED LIVING SYSTEMS . An Ecosystem Report

MX Review : In Parts

* adapted from "Negotiate My Boundary!"

* adapted from "Negotiate My Boundary!"

* adapted from "Negotiate My Boundary!"

* adapted from "Negotiate My Boundary!"

* adapted from "Negotiate My Boundary!"

SOURCE: Ramtv, Aljosa Dekleva,Manuela Gatto, Tina Gregoric,Robert Sedlak,Vasili Stroumpakos. "Negotiate My Boundary!". Birkhäuser Architecture; 2nd edition (May 16, 2006)

WORK-PLAN

Tentative Outline

SHARE SYSTEMS. A prototype for making family

Title

Author’s Statement

Abstract

Executive Summary

Outlining terms and the Phenomenological Method

The realities of the multicultural experience: Who we are and what we bring

Table of Contents / List of Illustrations

PART ONE: Think

Making Contemporary Families

“Yours and Mine” Cross-cultures: Japan, India, Europe

Learning from the joint family

Belonging and Alienation

Awkward Living Systems

Balancing Privacy and Exposure, Secret and Spectacle

Obsessing about Interiority

The Un-Private House

Surveillance and Responsibility

Shared Spaces: Benefits and Problems

PART TWO: Learn

Ontario

Single family home conversions and statistics: Financial and Social Implications

Typologies between the house and the apartment: Scale and Program

Emerging Living Systems

Architectural Elements and Forms

Section

Building for the : Individual+Stranger/ Individual+Family/ Family+Stranger

Interface : Identifying Thresholds, Barriers, Markers

Material, Distance, Orientation, Levels, Movement, Duration of stay

PART THREE: Experiment

Cambridge Case Study

The Midsize Town Condition

Students and Seniors: Housing Prototype

The 7-12 person unit

Design Proposal

Conclusions

Appendices

Bibliography

Seeking new horizons

We yearn for uncertainty in our environment; the uncanny balance between yours and mine, alien and home. While protected and intimate enclosures at the end of a familiar path offer security, opportunity rises from ambiguous territories that allow for exploration. We seek out suspense in space.

"Though the house is an area of security and peace for man, he would pine away if he locked himself in his house to escape the dangers of the world outside; the house would soon become a prison. He must go out into the world to transact his business and to fulfill his role in life. Both security and danger belong to man, and consequently both areas of lived-space, as life develops in the tension between outer and inner space. " (O.F. Bollnow)

There is a growing obsession in contemporary culture with the awkward systems prevalent in both our homes and the city. At each scale there is a personal investment made by the inhabitant to understand and move through space. The impulse of the traveler is to pursue; either for sheer enjoyment or personal pleasure, but always for satisfaction. As early as ancient Greece, Aristotle contended that strange things with complicated aesthetics brought pleasure to the viewer. The process of trying to understand how and why things are the way they are has followed us ever since. Edmund Husserl and M. Merleau-Ponty indicate that our perception of the world is not a series of unrelated shots but rather hinges from one phase to the next, forming a continuous; we constantly imagine what lies behind closed doors.

The following is a study on design guidelines that will be investigated as a template to understanding how to craft the identity of spaces that offer both security and opportunity.

The Basic Structure of a suspenseful situation consists of seven components: a barrier; realms created by the barrier; a target hidden in the unknown realm; human interest associated with the target; hints disclosing the target; various expectations aroused by the hints; and the feeling of suspense proper generated during this process.

Diagram Credit : Miao, Pu

Prescribing Four Patterns of Uncertainty to specific forms of suspenseful places.

Diagram Credit : Miao, Pu

Reduplication

Spiritual Barrier and Hint

Guiding Element

Movement

Unusual View

Incompleteness

Association of Human Being

Infinity

Light from Unseen Sources

Relevance in

Intimate Space. The House

Sacred Space. The Temple

Public Space. The Piazza

Circumstantial Factors in Spatial Suspense

Cultural Factors

Viewer's Previous Knowledge: frequency of users in the space

Reference: Pu Miao, Suspense of Space: Theory and Design.

Speculating Interface

Comfortable Systems. Constructing identity based on the structure of a tree root system with the home as a central source of strength and support. Away from the other. The city becomes a place of passage and social interaction.

Awkward Systems. An emerging system brought upon by mobility and multicultural interaction. Constructing identity based on the structure of an anthill where the individual is realised through exposure. The city becomes a place to eat, sleep, play and work.

Locating Markers. Understanding boundaries and thresholds at different degrees of privacy with varying levels of control.