invisible space

phase IV : Space

experience:

blindness

My partner during this process was Kurt and he has once been a journalist, he worked on the NRK radio station, he had his own company to help dogs with physic problems and now he's working on a church.

Kurt is blind since birth but he never went to a school for blind people. He studied physiotherapy.

The key words about our conversations were: inside/outside, free/not free, walls, lightness/darkness and family.

User + Material

Membrane

Unify/Stitching

Light Shapes

Safety

Adaptive

Inside/ Out

Space

It was purposed to develop a “inclusive design” house for four professors at BAS…

Based in the research on this semester what do I want in this project?

Stitch: the 3 buildings of Bas, light and shadow, nature and artificial;

Bring a “game of light” to inside of the new building;

Play with inside/out situations;

Distinguish the private (safe) and the common (dangerous);

Keep it Simple!!!!

How to stitch everything? . . .

. . . with a PARASITE !

Process

Defining :

common and private, the place, the light ...

Defining:

areas and functions

Defining:

Incident lights

Plan

Bedroom tipology

exteriors

The “legs” of the “parasite” creates a ambience near the cantina.

The structure of the building turns into a tactile marker. This “legs” goes to the elevator in the other side of BAS.

The project is localized on the 3rd floor.

interiors

Open library on the hallway.

Open silo ending in some plants inside the house .

Big bathroom with double passage and a handrail in the wall connect them.

Pockets of light.

interiors

Living room as space to socialize, for work and relax.

Wall separating the dark hallway and the one with light. Little opening to understand what’s going on in the other side

Big windows in the living room .

Space above the balcony for wheel chair people move perfectly

facades

West

North

North

Handrail – Sculpture – It’s Inclusive Design but you can’t notice - It’s part of the “parasite” concept

Model

Cut

Elevator

Outside (3rd floor)

Outside garden (near cantina)

windows detail

“When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal,” they say… This doesn't have to be true, does it?