Earth’s weather cyclically transforms over a year. Going from summer to fall to winter to spring. For this spring semester, our unit deliberates on seasonal and temporal changes and its effect on the design of interiors. Whilst architecture negotiates with the external environment, interior design directly defines our interior comfort. The unit seeks an appreciation for this dynamism between architecture and the seasons and their effects on our physical and mental well-being. By simulating seasonal transitions and their spatial effects, a catalogue of design strategies will be developed and their phenomenological effects qualified. A choreography of spatial effects for chosen interior environments that respond to their respective architectures and contexts will be made.
The second agenda of the unit is to explore the objective understanding of materials and subjective understanding of space. Our dynamically changing lifestyles and real-estate market force us to rebuild architecture every 30-40 years and 12-18 years for interior spaces. Students will research, qualify and catalogue materials based on composition, lifespan, usage, decay, reusability and disposability and other parameters. Using this catalogue they will speculate and prototype composites that can be used for modulating the designed response for their chosen interior environments.
