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Revealing an Experience
by Elizabeth Sinawe
An individual has landed their first job in the professional world in the dense city New York. Eager to begin, they seek out to search for a housing unit that provides a work, live, play setting.
The Structure is presented to them as a unique and one-of-a-kind experience. It allows for a sense of independence and personal responsibility, yet poses a social aspect, such as pockets that allow for the connectivity with neighbors and mode shifts in spaces. The facade unveils a series of monochromatic spaces with different programming and moveable and transformable furniture that allows for opportunity of exchange between neighbors. A once monochromatic room begins to introduce multiple colors into a space, suggesting the communication between neighbors and the exchange of their furniture overtime. As time passes, the structure never remains static with this participatory design because Individuals are constantly confronted with this urge for change in a limited urban space, encouraging neighbors to negotiate with each other to optimize its’ uses. Multiple opportunities presents itself to the users within the home, ranging from unique moments of communication, the visibility with others, and the way individuals aggregate within their unit. The colorful rooms are designed to suit a different occupant And signify the trade of furniture from one unit to another overtime. The furniture begins to enable activity and become a part of the architecture. An individual not only makes a mark within their unit, but within others as well.