dreamhouse design diary

Dreamhouse Design DiaryTomi Owolabi Unit Fifteen: Nic Clear, Mike Aling and Simon Withers

September 2013-January 2014 University of Greenwich

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Inputs

What if these inputs could manifest to an architecture in a

Post Scarcity Society where people no longer need designers and

architects. They can automatically generate architecture from their lifestyles or data that they had

uploaded online.


Personal Dream Residences

My main question for my thesis is, can you design a persons dream residence by digital clues? What

would happen if a person wanted to design a property in a post-scarcity

environment? Can we develop a "programme" or software that will

eventually replace the architect and manipulate the outcome like a puppeteer and a string puppet.

I want to look into the issues surrounding residential design and

the role of the architect, what if we replace the architect with this software, would people be pleased with the outcome, how would it

vary from a design from a "proper" architect?


App Design

My initial idea was to create an app that anyone could use to create an architecture. All you would need to

do was take photos of things that in-terested you and upload them. (like a scrap book). This app would then generate an "ideal" solution for you that would incorporate your choices.

These choices will be fed into a resource library that held a number

of options linking the images to a number of different choices. These

choices will then be used to generate the architecture.

After a discussion with the tutors last week I then decided to modify this. The app will only be used to

create residential spaces. There will be a number of preset variables and

this will be set by the user. I plan to test this using peoples footprint on their social media profiles. This leads to the question, can your so-cial media profile be used to design your dream home? What would an area filled with these sort of houses look like? In this landscape there are

no rules.


Connected inputs and their influence on design

Will the design process reflect an automated factory? Where you

‘download” information on your life and generate an architecture.

Will architecture then become a collage of your life, present, past and

future?


Bringing the Residence to life?(using projections)

This diagram was showing how the houses will be created from

conception to realisation.

The different stages will reduce the need for an architect.

People in Post Scarcity societies will be able to create their own houses and manipulate and change them

without the need of architect as it is in the current society.

This was looking at ideas of projections being used to create a different environment for living.


Site Location, Canvey Island Essex

There are a number of aspects of Canvey Island that have caught

my attention. The Houses all seem to be built at different times and different styles. They have a

level of isolation associated to the island. Transportation is difficult. The politics of the are is another aspect that caught my attention. Its almost as if they have a high level of independence. The other

interesting factor was the fact that they are trying to bridge the gap

with a development called the ‘road to nowhere’


Connecting the dots

What happens when everyone starts to upload their personal information

on the island?

I would like to see what type of architecture would be geenrated from the ‘post-scarctiy’ housing

schemes in Canvey Island.

favourite housing style space requirements sub-conscious preferences tolerance for change in tastes


Precedent Studies

The Environment Bubble

Living in a cocoon could be a post scarcity lifestyle choice. It allows for nomadic living. One of the limiting

factors of housing in C21 is the “permanence” of housing.

I am interested in how this will stunt or improve social interactions

and cultural exchanges.


Post Scarcity Design Precedents

Paul D NicholsThe Golden Age

“Memory is a fleeting thing, often constructed with fragments of

objects and places in a nonsensical arrangement in the mind. Golden Age - Simulation attempts to visualise this development of memory from the very abstract to the construction of whole

environments in a single strand of memory (translated as one long camera

shot).”

Utility Fog: The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of

July 5, 2001 by J. Storrs Hall

“Nanotech pioneer J. Storrs Hall’s original concept, the Utility Fog, consists of a swarm of nanobots (“Foglets”) that can take the shape of virtually anything,

and change shape on the fly. Here he discusses the technical details and

feasibility of this nanoconcept.”

Looking at how buildings will be constructed with the coming advances

of technology, especially in a post-scarcity society where resources are

unlimited.

Will houses change instantly to accommodate the residents?


THESIS TITLE

THEORY

PLATFORM (DESIGN CONCEPTS)

EXPLORATION

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

SINGULARITY

POST SCARCITY

LOCATION

CAN BE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (OMNIPRESENCE)

RELOCATION

HOME IS NO LONGER A PERMANENT FIXTURE

CANVEY ISLAND

PERMANENT MOBILE HOME

TEST CENTRE

PATTERN FOR THE FUTURE

HOUSING THEORIES AND POLICY Cedric

Pugh

SCRIPT FOR ANALYSIS

APP (FUNCTIONALITY)

(INPUTS) TAKE A PHOTO/UPLOAD PERSONAL DATA

ANALYSIS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS/DATA

GENERATES ‘PERFECT ARCHITECTURE’

CLIENT ACCEPTS DESIGN

APP (DESIGN)

INTERFACE

PRESET ARCHITECTURES?

MODULAR SYSTEMS

PROJECTION

MORPHOLOGY

CONSTRUCTION

UTILITY FOG

SMART MATTER

REPLACING THE ARCHITECT

TIMELINE

PARALLELS WITH CHANGES IN LIFE

BIRTH TO DEATH

HISTORIES AND CASE STUDIES

HISTORY OF AUTOMATED/ MECHANICAL HOUSING

DESIGN

EMBRYOLOGICAL HOUSE GREG LYNN

SKYLAR TIBBETS 4D

OPEN SOURCE (MASSIMO BANZI-‐ 4TH

REVOLUTION)

WIKIHOUSE ALASTAIR PARVIN

MOLECULAR NANOTECHNOLOGY

FOGLETS

UNIVERSAL PHYSICAL

SUBSTANCE

PSYCHOLOGIST CARL JUNG HOUSE AS A SYMBOL OF SELF

‘MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS’ CLARE COOPER MARCUS

HOUSE AS A MIRROR OF SELF INDIVIDUALISM

GLENN ROBERT LYM

MIT RESEARCH INTO 3D CHAINMAIL BUILDING

MATERIALS

THE GOLDEN AGE PD NICHOLLS

COMPOSITION

INTERACTION DESIGN

DESIGNING WITH CULTURE IN MIND

SCRIPT FOR NEW ARCHITECTURES

BEHROKH KHOSHNEVIS CONTOUR CRAFTING

SELF ASSEMBLY LAB

ALAN CHERRY DEBATE 2012

MAHINA:THE DREAM

HOUSE YOU CANNOT OWN

CONCEPTS

THE DILAPIDATED DWELLING (2000)

ARDUINO

DWELL-‐ON-‐STYLE-‐ NIKI SCHAFER

ENVIRONMENT BUBBLE

NOMADIC THOUGHT

FILM

BECOMES A WAY OF PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT

REPLICATED FROM CITY TO CITY-‐ BECOMES GLOBAL

NEXT LEVEL

CULTURAL

POLITICAL

SOCIAL

URBAN DESIGN

FLW BROADACRE CITY LAGOS

KOOLHAUS/GANDY

Project Themes

General Overview of the Project Themes


Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd Wright

“Imagine spacious landscaped highways …giant roads, themselves

great architecture, pass public service stations, no longer eyesores,

expanded to include all kinds of service and comfort. They unite

and separate — separate and unite the series of diversified units, the farm units, the factory units, the roadside markets, the garden schools, the dwelling places (each

on its acre of individually adorned and cultivated ground), the places

for pleasure and leisure. All of these units so arranged and so integrated

that each citizen of the future will have all forms of production,

distribution, self improvement, enjoyment, within a radius of a

hundred and fifty miles of his home now easily and speedily available by means of his car or plane. This integral whole composes the great city that I see embracing all of this

country—the Broadacre City of tomorrow.”


Concept Architectural Buildings

“The CG Society organized a contest that invited digital artists from

around the globe to present their most imaginative and grandest

futuristic vision for the new world through architecture and

landscape design. The end results were amazingly impressive and

immeasurable to what we normally see on a daily basis.”


representational of a platform used to create this ideal home with focus on site.

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Living in Post Scarcity Society

Choosing a site for living. I am proposing you can use a digital

device such as a phone to find and develop a site. The advances in

technology allow for the selection of the site using an augmented reality.

a. b. c.

a. Views on Canvey Island

b. Using a digital device to select a site

c. Using technology to manipulate what you see


Fade from Black

Film Draft One

The main message I was trying to get across with this film was the difference between the current present day and the homes of a

post-scarcity society.

It explores the idea of changing your environment using a digital

platform and then physically exploiting your surroundings. It also

highlights the differences between the ‘dreamstate’ and the reality. The

augmentation occurs during the transition to the ‘dreamstate’. You are able to explore your deepest

desires and it can even surprise you and bring out an aspect of your creativity that you didn’t explore

previously.

Field 10 Canvey Island“Permanent” Mobile Homes

Beginning of transit to dreamstate, battling with reality and the unattainable desires

using a digital platform to move into this dreamstate.

Seeing figures you do not recognise but they are a form of yourself

Transition complete. familiar forms remind you of your past and where you came from (reality)

entering dreamstate. It holds all the secret wants you dare not expose.


See the Future: Real 3D Digital Building Holograms

“Patented advances in lasers, optics and image processing are incorporated into Zebra’s innovative process to produce holographic imagery from 3D data sets. Raw data sources of any kind, such as CAD models, laser scans and satellite imagery are used to product the final holographic image. Each hardcopy digi-tal hologram is composed of thousands of high fidelity rendered still images. The images are encoded into a “hogel” (the equivalent of a holographic pixel) on photopolymer film with a proprietary optical process. The result is a portable film based hologram that can be viewed in direct sunlight or with a simple halo-gen or LED light source.”

The image shows the way in which a number of objects can be used to translate to your dream residence.

You can see the way the dream correlates to the reality.


Design Precedents

Hologram Architectural Projections

“A short set of conceptual drawings set in a decaying London exploring

the idea of a retrofitted architec-tural/technological infrastructure

capable of defining space solely through projected light, using

holography.

Such a technology is not current-ly feasible, but these drawings

explore the potential for flexible/autonomously controlled spaces to be created and inserted amidst the existing urban environment should

it ever become so.Did these in the first few days of my final master’s year, i had just returned from Japan the previous

summer, perhaps the neon was burnt into my imagination.”

www.terrapol.com


What does a Post Scarcity Building Site look like?


Selection of Six Case Studies

Looking at historical Mapping and understanding the significance of

each of the sites.

They are all connected by the largest case study site, THE WALL

Not only is this significant in the idea of keep Canvey Island free

from flooding and it also forms a defence mechanism which relates

back to the historical context of the site.

One Dutchman built the Canvey Island we see today. The photographs highlight the first

case study site, Field 10, where the project is based.


Photo montage of Selected Site

Field 10

Permanent Mobile Homes


Dreamhouse, endless possibilities?


CASE STUDY ONE

FIELD 10

This site is where the ‘permanent mobile homes’ are situated. It is an odd site sandwiched between

Thorney Bay(a site of intense natural beauty) and a disused oil

refinery.

CASE STUDY TWO

BOAT CLUB AND MARSHES

This is a site that highlights the idea of movement around Thames

Estuary and having a building set on “non-land”. Land that is

constantly changing and eroding. Can a permanent building be set

in such a situation?


CASE STUDY THREE

THE WALL

The wall runs the entire length of Canvey Island and acts as a defence

barrier to the Thames Estuary during times of Flooding

CASE STUDY FOUR

FANTASY ISLAND AND THE POOL

Disused amusements and a children’s natural paddling pool are the main features of this site. The

road from the main junction leads directly here.


CASE STUDY FIVE

THORNEY BAY

Beautiful disused bay. It has a number of interesting natural

features including a garden and sandy shores.

CASE STUDY SIX

CANVEY TERMINAL AND RE-FINERY

The disused refinery is the main feature of this site. It has an eerie feel and the vast amount of space

used here gives and indication of the forgotten.


“NOTHING IS ORIGINAL: STEAL FROM ANYWHERE”

“...that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. “ Jim Jarmusch

Strange Street

A street where the buildings do not correlate. Every land owner has been allowed to build exactly what they imagined and wanted. What would

this street of the future look like?

“It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”

Jean-Luc Godard

http://architizer.com/blog/1-architecture/


“Inside Out” by Coffey Architecture has a concrete base with brightly colored wooden pieces that slide in and transform the plain structure into something special

“Compass House” by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris is distinctly modern with its white, boxy structure and vibrant green accents.

“Electra House” by Adjaye Associates has a playful energy with folding walls and skylights.

“Haptic House” by Dexter Moren uses stacked boxes to create a plethora of tiny rooms in this unique dollhouse design.

“mae-mak house” by Mae in associate with MAKLab and Burro Happold is a truly interactive experience with many flat pieces creating a full dollhouse and then folding down into a flat carrying case.

“Puzzle House” by Studio Egret West in association with Andrew Logan is also modular, with stacked boxes creating the house and then nestling within one another to create a snug rectangular box.

“A dolls’ house made of three-sided rooms” by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has a title that largely describes its look, box rooms stacked high.

This untitled funky pirate tower comes from Morag Myerscough & Luke Morgan in association with artists Ishbel Myerscough, Chantal Joffe and poet Lemn Sissay.

Dollhouses Designed by Star Architects

When we think about what we can do as a society to help disabled children, research, education, and

healthcare all come to mind. But one of the issues that faces all disabled

children and their families is finding an affordable and accessible

place to live. In the UK, the Kids organization aims to help disabled children and their families in every facet of their lives, which is why this

November they will auction off a series of dollhouses, designed and

created by some of the top architects in the UK, to raise funds and bring

attention to the critical need for accessible housing.

http://www.home-designing.com/2013/11/dollhouses-designed-

by-star-architects


W E E K S E V E N

Design Precedents

Representation of Dreams in Paintings


Design Precedents

The Science of Sleep (2006)Michel Gondry

“A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show

her his world.”


Design Precedents

Inception (2010)Chris Nolan

Lucid Dreaming and Dream Control

“Some dreams are wild adventures in mysterious lands; some are the frustrating type where we repeatedly try to do something that never seems to work; others are crazy nightmares that startle us awake in a cold sweat; and some are sex dreams that add a little spice to our lives (ooh la la!). But have you ever had a dream that

you could control?

Commonly called Lucid Dreaming, this is a kind of dream state where you consciously discover you’re dreaming and decide take the reigns.”

references to MC Escher


Design Precedents

Mulholland Drive (2001)David Lynch

“After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and

reality.”

references to Mobius Strip


Möbius strip

“The Mobius strip--the common sense-defying continuous loop with only one side and one edge, made famous by the illustrations of M. C. Escher-leads us to some of the strangest spots imaginable. It takes us to a place where the purely intellectual enters our daily world: where our outraged senses, overloaded as they are with grocery bills, the price of gas, and what to eat for lunch, are expected to absorb truly bizarre ideas. And no better guide to our weird universe exists than the brilliant thinker Clifford A. Pickover, the twenty-first century’s

answer to Buckminster Fuller.”

This began an train of thought where I was wondering what would happen in a alternative Canvey Island. Where the ‘army’ of housing begins to take over the elevational

views of a street.

MC Escher References in scenes in Inception


C L O U D S C L O S E D E Y E L I D S

F A D I N G T R A N S I T I O N

M I R R O R S R E F L E C T I O N S

Dream Theater # 2

Main Aspects of Dreams in art and film

Clouds- used to signify a confusion between the reality and the

dream. It is a way to soften the transition(please see fading

transition)

Closed eyelids used to signify sleeping and dreaming.

Fading Transitions- used to illustrate the movement from

reality to the dream state

Mirrors- used to highlight the comparisons between being in a dream and in reality. They break the illusion and give a true (or

manipulated) representation. This allows the viewer to decide for themselves what their reality is

going to be.


“It’s no surprise. I’m sure most of the crime on Canvey comes from Thorney Bay.”

:...brother of site owner Jeff King – Graham – runs Clearsprings, a company which has a Government

contract to provide a number of bail hostels.” *

C A S E S T U D Y O N E F I E L D 10

“Residential Static Caravans”

SITE LOCATION

“Residents choose to moveto caravan homes for a variety of reasons,” said Cllr

Jeffrey Stanley, deputy Leader of the Council.

“We were recently criticised by the

Inspector in the Glebelands planning inquiry for counting caravan as homes. This survey, which is anonymous, will

help us to understand the reasons, lifestyle and satisfaction of people living at residential caravan parks in Castle

Point.

POPULATION

“He was unsure how many homes were on the park, but estimated it was between 800 and 900 and stated they

had all but finished their expansion pro-gramme which first aroused residents’

concerns last summer.”

OTHER In a recorded interview:

“I would not be able to pay my rent by direct debit or cheque, but could pay by

cash or card, weekly or monthly.

She said: “It is like a gigantic council estate, but we have 24-hour security and

any problems they will sort out.” “ *


Case Study One

D R E A M T H E O R I E S

FIELD OF DREAMSCURRENT DREAMHOUSE IN

TODAY’S SOCIETYPERSONAL CASTLE, WHAT IS

THIS LIKE?WHAT ARE YOUR DESIRES

D E S I G N B R I E F

THE ORIGINAL DIMENSIONS OF THE CARAVAN ARE TO BE

ADHERED TO 10FT X 90FT LIKE IN HISTORICAL PAST OF THE

SITE.

YOU CAN LIVE IN THE CARAVAN PARK FOR NO

LONGER THAN ONE YEAR

IT BECOMES A PERMANENT MOBILE HOME

BUILT USING TODAYS TECHNOLOGY

“Canvey to receive £2million boost if 600 homes built at Thorney Bay Caravan Park

Outline planning permission was granted for the development of up to 600 homes at a Castle Point Council meeting in September, sparking outrage from residents and councillors who claim it will clog up the island’s roads with extra traffic and put pressure on schools and health facilities.

The plans were approved in principle subject to Section 106 agreement being decided on what contributions land owner and millionaire businessman Jeff King would need to make if formal planning permission is granted.

The Echo contacted Mr King but did not receive a response.”

S K E T C H O F P R O P O S A L


C A S E S T U D Y T W O

Boatclub and Marshes


day·dream (ddrm)n.

A dreamlike musing or fantasy while awake, especially of the fulfillment of wishes or hopes.

intr.v. day·dreamed or day·dreamt (-drmt), day·dream·ing, day·dreams

To have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.

CORRESPONDS TO THE IDEA OF FLOATING AND DRIFTING

IN AND OUT OF DREAMS


THE DWELLINGS MUST BE MADE TO SURVIVE THE

(PREDICTED) FLOODING OF CANVEY ISLAND

THE DWELLING MUST ALLOW THE USER TO DRIFT IN AND

OUT OF THE THAMES ESTUARY AS THE TIDES ALLOW

THE DWELLING MUST SATISFY THE RESIDENTIAL NEEDS OF

THE USER


C A S E S T U D Y T H R E E

The Wall at Chapman Lighthouse


trance (noun)

a half-conscious state characterized by an absence of response to external stimuli, typically as

induced by hypnosis or entered by a medium.


USE OF A FARADAY CAGE (PODS) TO TRANSPORT CATCH A GLIMPSE

OF THE DREAM LAND

THE PODS ALLOW FOR SLEEP AND CAN SUSTAIN A CLIENT FOR 1- 5

HOURS IN A SLEEP STATE

THEY ARE TRANSPORTED VIA TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES TO A DREAMSTATE IN WHICH FRAGMENTS FROM THE PAST

FORM A FABRIC FOR THEIR EXPLORATION.

THE PODS ARE CONTROLLED AND USED FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

INTO DREAMS.

S K E T C H O F P R O P O S A L


Case Study Four

Fantasy Island and the Paddling Pool

Case Study Five

Thorney Bay

Case Study Six

Canvey Terminal and Refineries


Case Study FourDaze

Crash of a monetary based social system. People begin to “take up

land” and build as they please. First come first served land area, this

leads to no correlation between the houses.

Case Study FiveFantasy

Land is slowly becoming rare. The pressure and boom in the population (no one is dying of

natural causes due to advances in technology) leads to the artificial

synthesis of land in the waterways.

Case Study SixDreamland

Canvey Terminal becomes a terminal to Dreamland. Allows you to move to a permanent residence

in dreamland. Where your life becomes a simulation of your

deepest desires and inputs from your life on earth.


Visions of a Dreamhouse

“This new vision of time and space, which will be the theoretical basis

of future constructions, is still imprecise and will remain so until experimentation with patterns of behavior has taken place in cities

specifically established for this purpose, cities bringing together

— in addition to the facilities necessary for basic comfort and

security — buildings charged with evocative power, symbolic edifices

representing desires, forces and events, past, present and to come.

A rational extension of the old religious systems, of old tales, and above all of psychoanalysis, into architectural expression becomes more and more urgent as all the

reasons for becoming impassioned disappear.”

Ivan Chtcheglov


Marble Cathedral in Chile

“An azure temple created by nature, the walls of this network of water-

filled marble caverns show just how magnificent the precious geography

of our planet can be.Visitors to the water-sculpted blue caverns see light reflected off the

turquoise waters of South America’s second largest freshwater lake, General Carrera in Patagonia,

Chile.”

‘Blue Light’ book by Linde Waidehofer, 67, from Colorado,

USA


Creating a Personal Cathedral

“Everyone will, so to speak, live in their own personal “cathedrals.”

There will be rooms more conducive to dreams than any drug, and

houses where one cannot help but love. Others will be irresistibly

alluring to travellers.”


Dreamhouse Film Second Draft

Dreamhouse becomes a place of aspirations and the subconscious.

It could also be described as an alternative or parallel world. The unconscious is structures like a

language.

Recurring Glitch‘reference The Remembered Film by

Victor Burgin’

Glitches in memories pieced together to create a fragmented

landscape

Dreams are made of things we know and have seen in the past. How

does this develop into a landscape. I believe its not actually the

‘dreamhouse’ that makes a dream house but the dream location. The location actually makes the dream.

Dreamhouses can have a projected locale. This enables you to live and breathe that environment. Dreams

are about wish fulfilment.

opening scene

Caravan Park becomes a 2.5D space. You are drawn closer to the main caravan.

Interior view of the living space. The television shows a scene as seen on the journey to Field 10

Complete transition to dreamland.

The viewer dabbles in between dreamland and reality. The mix of the two is unclear

The ultimate aim is to create your own personal cathedral. Where the mix of your desires and realities create a safe haven for you.

Dreamhouse has been created it consists of a number of vistas from you dream spaces in your house


The multi-story slide in an artistic context: Carsten Höller's installation at the Tate Modern, 2006. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Georgy Krutikov's Flying City: likely to stay in the category 'unrealised and unrealisable'

The Canadian environmental museum in Montreal, designed by Buckminster Fuller. Fuller's plan for a two-mile diameter geodesic dome over Manhattan remains unrealised. Photograph: Alamy

Dream Developments that have been deemed

“unrealisable”

Would they be possible in Dreamland?


Direct rendering of warped fish-eye views for spherical

mirror projection

“...a low cost system for projecting into planetarium domes using a sin-gle projector and a spherical mirror.

The approach taken in that docu-ment is that content creators would

render to fisheye images which would in turn be warped to create the correct views for the spherical

mirror projection. This warping can be performed offline or built into the movie playback software, (warping on the fly). Here an alternative di-

rect rendering method is introduced, the correct warped image is created directly from the rendering (general-ly raytracing) process by simulating

the projection geometry.”

Written by Paul BourkeJuly 2004


Works of Impossible Architecture Built from

Found Photos

Jim Kazanjian’s surreal landscapes offer phantasmagoric visions of

a where-is-this world, defined by impossibly complex architecture and M.C.Escher-esque black-and-white

graphics.”

“Inspired by the imaginary realms of cult author H.P. Lovecraft—whose wild, cosmic short stories

set the mold for much of the 20th century’s best science fiction—Kazanjian’s aim is to redress the “misunderstanding that

photography has a kind of built-in objectivity…to defamiliarize the

familiar.”


Dreamhouse in Situ

Views from the exterior

glassbox typical of Field 10 glass box changing its environment

using dreams to manipulate the form of dreamhouse what if this is turned upside? Dreamhouse becomes difficult to describe


Dreamhouse as an isolated object


Gateway to Dreamhouse Living Spaces


SPINTRONIC DEVICE USES THIN-FILM ORGANIC

SEMICONDUCTORMagSensor

“An inexpensive and highly accurate “spintronic” magnetic field sensor

developed at the University of Utah is shown here. The entire device, on a printed circuit board, measures

about 0.8 inches by 1.2 inches. But the part that actually detects

magnetic fields is the reddish-orange thin-film semiconductor –

essentially “plastic paint” – near the center-right of the device.”

This device is used to create sculptural elements that are capable

of sensing psychological state and combat that with a beautiful setting


Sensor Based on Organic Spintronics

The sensors are based on a field of science named spintronics, in which data is stored both electronically in the electrical charges of electrons or atomic nuclei and in what is known

as the “spin” of those subatomic particles.

Described simply, spin makes a particle behave like a tiny bar

magnet that is pointed up or down within an electron or a nucleus. Down can represent 0 and up

and represent 1, similar to how in electronics no charge represents

0 and a charge represents 1. Spintronics allows more information – spin and charge – to be used than electronics, which just uses charge.


views of Field 10, Canvey IslandProjected from the manipulation of

deramhouse

dreamhouse is forced to pick a number of virtual cues from reality. It allows you to walk through from the kitchen to a high street you visited yesterday.

The overlap between internal and external is difficult to define. It allows aspects of the external world to come into the home and vice versa. This is actually brought in by the mind rather than physical growth in the two realms.

The Ecology of Dreamhouse

A lost reality

“An external reality: The reality which we experience through our senses, what we see, hear, smell,

taste and sense.

An internal reality: Our experiences beyond the senses, what we think,

feel, believe, etc.

In the realm of the external reality, we can, and constantly do expect a rather wide common ground

of agreement with other human beings. In relation to the internal

reality it is relatively objective.

In the realm of internal reality we expect much less agreement

(although more than we can ever find), in relation to the external

reality it is more subjective.

Architecture is here reduced to “a mean of communication” for

symbols and metaphors. It is then a reasonable recommendation to

throw as much as possible into the “mix”, hoping that

something will be “understood”. “


Creating an alternative landscape

tree connects all aspects of dreamhouse

view of case studies projection into the internal spaces

internal view of dreamhouse

dream environment clues from your background and usual environment

roots of dreamhouse can appear anywhere people are able to move between spaces and construct their own realities.


living room kitchendining room

staircase

Glass Box

Permanent Mobile Home

Ground Floor View


bedroom

bathroom

hallway

wardrobe/changing area

Glass Box

Permanent Mobile Home

First Floor View


Glass Box

External View


Glass Box

Drawings

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Interior Images

Hallway


Glass Box

Interior Images

Living Room


Glass Box

Interior Images

Wardrobe


Glass Box

Interior Images

Kitchen


Glass Box

Interior Images

Dining Room


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Bedroom


Glass Box

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Bathroom


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Staircase


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Living Space


Glass Box

Exterior

Contextual Elevation


B A T H R O O M

The dream bathroom reflects me as a person. I use the bathroom as a cleanser, which is demonstrated in

the tap. The mirror with an abstract reflection leads to the idea that what I see in the mirror on a daily basis

is volatile like the volcanic eruption that can be seen. Reflection does not necessarily show the surroundings even though that is what we are

lead to believe. There is a lot more to spaces than what we can necessarily

“see”.


B E D R O O M

Falling through the bedframe and clouds leads to the idea that sleep

is a transition-ary state. It becomes a gateway to dreamhouse. Even though we are now accustomed to the (often political, social and

economic) invisible boxes placed on us by society when we sleep we are

free from these and it is expressed in our dreams.


H A L L W A Y

The hallway becomes a row of vistas with an end destination. They tempt and interest you but which will you

pick? What if there is a floating hallway and the doorway becomes a picture frame, the beginning of a new narrative. You are free to enter

and begin your own story..


K I T C H E N

This image represents heat and the warmth emulated from a kitchen when cooking. The door reflects a number of cultural connotations;

we like to shut the door when cooking as it allows the smells to be contained as well as allowing the cook to “present” the finished

meal. The silver spoon is a reflection of dual nationality and the dual

function of the “permanent mobile” homes as seen on Field 10 on

Canvey Island.


S T A I R C A S E

Why climb up a staircase when you can float? The ornamented staircase

shown is taken from Buckingham Palace, it gives the idea that you are the Regent of your dreams. You can

limit how expressive and creative your dreamscapes are. It becomes

a chance for you to express yourself in the deepest sense. Staircases are

traditionally used for ascending and descending but this function is not necessary in a dream, you can just

transition from one space to another. The balloon signifies the implied creativity and imagination. It is

often very fragile and easily deflated. But it also has potential to move the user to another space just like

dreams.


This is Dreamhouse


Sauna

Thinking pods allow for pondering the future and coming up with ideas

I cannot decide whether b/w or colour is best


Dining Room

Teeth represent the physical act of eating. The images leading to the

tongue actually highlight the sources of food in Canvey Island in a Post

Scarcity Society. People will begin to create food using the raw materials,

what will this do to the food production industry and the way we participate in the activity of eating.


Living Room

The rug overlay is a way of bringing all the aspects of the living area

together. The window highlights the fact that this is a momentary space.

It gives a sense of closeness while exposing the openness of the living room. The framed family photo is

to represent the memories as stored in a family living room. The smiling face is to represent the laughter and joy felt when meeting with friends and family in a living space. It is a space that is connected to the resident in an emotional way.


Landscape

As previously discussed the surroundings of a house can add to the dreamlike qualities of a space. It is interesting because it gives a

sense of tranquillity. The glass ball represents the idea of choice and

free will. It allows the visitor to set their own environment.

The pool also represents an idea of tranquilly. The background image

is actually a photograph of Thorney Bay.


Wardrobe

This space is of special interest to me. I am proposing that people no longer need to keep a wardrobe full of clothing but rather manufacture clothing themselves. I think this fits

into the idea of Individualism as shown in the Historical Background

of Canvey Island.

The mannequins represent a sense of unknown creation of clothing.

You then become the mannequin in the Post Scarcity lifestyle. Everyone becomes a model of their deepest

desires.

The sewing machines represent the ‘luxury’ of creating an item of

clothing.

The different environments become a reflection of the persons desires and influences the clothing they

create and live in.


Original Wardrobe Image

I was interested in seeing how reflections, environment and

random objects of memory affect the clothing of residents in a Post

Scarcity society.


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Dreamhouse Levels Diagram

Each level corresponds to the other and builds upon it.

The site is level one, a level based solely in reality.

The final level is 5 where the user interacts with all the spaces in their

dreamhouse.

The spaces merge and become a collective, this mirrors the functions of different rooms in a house. They

all are separate but necessary together. They exist in a co-

dependency and this creates a living environment.


Level Diagram

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a

form of planning.”

Gloria Steinem


The Virtual as a Reflection of the Subconscious

“The subconscious mind:Think of the subconscious mind as the storage room of everything that is currently not in your conscious

mind.

The subconscious mind stores all of your previous life experiences, your

beliefs, your memories, you skills, all situations you’ve been through and

all images you’ve ever seen.

The best way to understand the subconscious mind is to look at the example of the person who

wants to learn how to drive a car. At the beginning he wouldn’t be able to hold a conversation with

anyone while driving as he would be focusing on the different moves involved. That’s because he’s still

using his conscious mind to drive.”


Overlap of Dreamhouse Levels

Although all levels are important in their own right together they create a perfect living environment for the

user.

The revolving system acts as a framed view for the user as seen in

the proposed film.


Chronogram Draft


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