Architectural Activism Fellowship Research
Mentor 1
Samantha Schuermann
Start Date
28-4-2023 12:00 AM
Description
The overall research aims to re-read domestic architectural typologies, in order to understand their cultural meanings, gendered implications, and aesthetic strategies. Throughout the research we have gained a better understanding on domestic spaces and their embedded meanings. These meanings are then turned into physical modeled rooms that are based on a new set of domestic values and visual representation. The methodology of this research relies on historical survey, archival survey, analytical drawing, and physical model making. Over the course of the research, we developed new ways of model making such as sewing and quilting. This technique allowed us to explore a new way of modeling domestic conditions. We also discovered and created a new way of analytical drawings and architectural representation that documents the overall domestic conditions in our chosen domestic spaces. The research has observed the overall change in domestic conditions such as aesthetics, materials, function, furniture, objects, and cultural context over the course of the different historical time periods researched. The documentation shows a shift in domestic aesthetics that correlates with contemporaneous larger sociological, political shifts over time.
Architectural Activism Fellowship Research
The overall research aims to re-read domestic architectural typologies, in order to understand their cultural meanings, gendered implications, and aesthetic strategies. Throughout the research we have gained a better understanding on domestic spaces and their embedded meanings. These meanings are then turned into physical modeled rooms that are based on a new set of domestic values and visual representation. The methodology of this research relies on historical survey, archival survey, analytical drawing, and physical model making. Over the course of the research, we developed new ways of model making such as sewing and quilting. This technique allowed us to explore a new way of modeling domestic conditions. We also discovered and created a new way of analytical drawings and architectural representation that documents the overall domestic conditions in our chosen domestic spaces. The research has observed the overall change in domestic conditions such as aesthetics, materials, function, furniture, objects, and cultural context over the course of the different historical time periods researched. The documentation shows a shift in domestic aesthetics that correlates with contemporaneous larger sociological, political shifts over time.
