FUTURE DWELLING

“A home is not a house” - Reyner Banham & Francois Dallegret 1965 This studio engages with various ideas of the domestic dwelling, both in its traditional thematic response as a private space and its continuous evolution as an environment that manifests itself into our contemporary technological age and beyond. Our early C20th modernist ideals of a machine age utopia, have rendered our present, a technological kaleidoscope of infinite possibilities, whilst our physical environment is left coping with our dependency to it and all that it entails. The traditional spatial hierarchies of home, work and play are blurred as technology is integrated into every aspect of our daily lives. In the last decade, our lifestyles have changed, yet our domestic/private spaces have not reflected this movement. Instead as a protective response in times of rapid change, we perpetuate mid C20th typical domestic space. The studio will workshop the possibilities of new domestic spatial relationships and how these spaces interact with two specific environments, the city and the suburbs.

2 x domestic prototype housing for the near future 2020: 1 x in a dense urban context (CBD) and 1 x a suburban context. The prototype will contemplate future user groups and their cohorts, population growths, land availability, materiality and sustainability. In groups of 3 students to determine an interstitial site in the CBD for that particular group. Suburban site – 22 Hudson St Coburg