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Whitehead The exploration of the nature of the relationship between public and private spaces has been explored through the design of a series of ‘outdoor rooms’. The course has pushed through the methods of design that have allowed us as students to focus on the architectural interior not just as space but also as a space of inhabitation, as a lived space. My design started as a journey through the sea front and into the city. As a take on de Certeau’s “Walking in the City” and artists’ works based around the subject of walking (Dada, the Surrealists, the Situationists, Land Art etc), I saw the journey between the public sea front and a residential street, not only as an investigatory tool but as an action that manipulates the space – i.e. as architectonic action. By walking from the sea promenade into a residential street, I carried to the latter sedentary place the qualities of the nomadic and public space. In my project, people’s homes become performance spaces, their own domestic dramas, their interests, and their desires are transmitted into a new skin of the building. Through walking in this elevated promenade, crossing the boundaries of private and public, the passers-by are also constantly shifting between being spectators and private persons to being performers. |
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