Project Description
We are continuing and furthering the research we began this semester. This research is part of the larger research I am conducting as the Architectural Activism Fellow that will culminate in an end of year exhibition. The research aims to re-read domestic architectural typologies to understand their embedded cultural meanings, gendered implications, and aesthetic strategies. Through this research, myself an the students aim to gain a greater understanding of how domestic spaces are embedded with meaning and, in turn, propose, design, and physically build a full-scale "room" based on a new set of domestic values. This research will build upon the foundational survey we conducted this fall 2022 semester. In the spring, we will focus more on physical modeling and exhibition design and installation. The methodology of this research will rely heavily on the historical survey, archival study, analytical drawing, and physical modeling. As a team, during this fall semester, we collected and documented a series of historically, architecturally significant domestic spaces, re-drew and analyzed these spaces, and collected data on form, material, color, and aesthetics through a set of drawing standards. In the spring, we hope to physically model many of the spaces from this analytical survey and design an install an exhibition at SARUP. The exhibition will include a series of booklets of our drawings and analysis, physical models, textile experiments, and a full scale mock-up of a designed room based on our previous research.
Tasks and Responsibilites
Students will collect historical data, create analytical drawing standards, execute these standards via drawing, physically model key pieces of research, and conduct textile experimentations. Students will also assist in the design and installation of an exhibit of the research in the SARUP building. Students will be responsible for meeting weekly with the research mentor (myself) and presenting, discussing, and analyzing the research thoroughly and often. In addition, during the Spring semester, the students will be responsible for helping to exhibit and present the research to the larger community at SARUP via an exhibition. As such, the students will be treated as peers rather than subordinates and will be expected to conduct themselves professionally.