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Contemporary Collective Space

This project is based on the exploration CUBE
of the limits of two elements. A continuous ...and the QUILT.
surface and a box. A carpet is introduced into This project was based on the exploration
the project as an element of décor, that, in the of the limits of two continuous elements.
The aim was to find how many ways one
same way as the furniture, is tested to perform could use a furniture piece and a decor
as an enclosure. piece to define a living space.
In terms of project performance, and
besides being furniture piece, the cubes are
meant to act as structural elements, primary
space de ners and pavement and walking
surfaces when broken down to speci c sizes.
The Décor performance is a secondary space
de ner, supported by structural element it could
be a public surface, an arti cial landscape.The
cube and the surface, translated into furniture
and carpet, structure and décor, are two elements
with its own logic of aggregation and behavior,
but in the lack of articulation of this two elements Arch 553 - Fall 2017
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is where the discovery of new domestic landscape
resides.
The aim is to manipulate these two elements
and relentlessly explore their contrasting
characteristics and try to exploit their behaviors in
order to create and realize new possible ways of
creating spaces and atmospheres of living.

Loosely de ned program and the individual oor
plates create a setting for a range of activities that
can take place at di erent scales.The house
provides spaces of intimacy if two individuals
choose to be close, while also accomodating for
a group of guests by distributing people across
the house.