Friday, July 11, 2008

2008 - Semester 1 - ITDN211 - Interior Software

I created a separate blog for this assignment follow this link http://interiorsoftware.blogspot.com/

Thursday, April 17, 2008

2008 - Semester 1 - ITDN211 - Interior Hardware: The Brief

This assignment examines the constructed interior environment in light of its physical and concrete manifestations as well as its impact on inhabitation as an act of dwelling and living. It observes the intimate relationship between body and matter and accepts that there is active reciprocal and dynamic interface between that which is temporal and ephemeral and that which appears to be solid, stable and effectively more permanent. For the sake of maintaining a specific focus, this assignment and its accompanying exercises locate the notion of 'dwelling' within the everyday domestic sphere

Two primary objectives structure this assignment:

- To document and analyse the conventional and normative constitution of interior architecture as understood through spatial and tectonic elements
- To probe question and reconceptualise these conditions in the context of speculative design gestures

These objectives are couched in a series of four short one-week exercises:

ENTER: doors thresholds, passages, journeys, openings, entrance, access
BREATHE–VIEW: windows, looking, gap, filter, screen, pane, frame, smell
ENVELOPE: enclosure surroundings, surface, décor, wrap, floors, ceiling
SIT: posture, furniture, furnishings, spatial organization, circulation

We were asked to document our most developed exercise through powerpoint or video. Bellow is my video relating the envelope exercise.

video
my lounge. a space that connects all other rooms in my house. no direct access to the exterior. i am very at home. it is a space i share with the people i am close to. centre of the house. i am so familiar with the space that I cant see it. i cant analyse it properly. i need to isolate myself and it. disengage with it and document it as a outsider would. for 5 days i did not inhabit the space in the way i usually would. only passing through and documenting the textures of the space. how does your impression of a place change when you no longer inhabit it? the textural envelope i produced was very factual and sterile. the clear or opaque materials i used for the structures depict the lounge as a gallery type space. something for people to look through, examine and scrutinise.

Bellow is my final catalogue I presented for hand in: