Eyaleigai Vivekanandan

AR2031

The Body of Memories Shaping Architecture

The relation of the memories, that has been retained across the past years, was revived and emphasised on to develop the architecture of my childhood home in a 6m underground pit. Distributed across three stages, the design process involved recalling and applying past experiences and memories to develop the design, being meticulous on improving the expression and experience of inhabiting the space for my family members. The gesture of expanding one's experiences to meet the society was explored as the home emerged out of the pit into an institution, expressing the close knit relationship of oneself with the world. 

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Visual representation of my cohabitants and myself, and spatial representation of experiencing physical places from memory and observation

My Secret Place involved designing a hideout that includes places to provide the experience of: solitude for oneself, intimate gathering for a group of my four friends and congregational space for an additional fifteen people.

Revisiting the past: representing people, spatial profile, and vegetation that are associated with my past memories

The graphic novella narrates prominent memories of my childhood by stringing the sketches of previous exercises to form the basis for the design of my childhood home.

The designing of the childhood home began by understanding its context through the associative site map, and exploring the character of the home through collage.

Orthographic drawings of the childhood home

The design is represented through different media that accentuate a particular aspect of the design, such as mass-void relationship, volumetric connections.

My community place: site and plans of the design

Understanding interspatial relation through sectional drawings and construction details through detailed wall section

Expressing the relationship of the building with context through elevational drawings, and the interaction within it through exploded axonometric view of the building.