ARTT 006F. ARCH Design: Dwelling and Inhabitation (A Room Of One’s Own)

The design studio takes the room as a contemporary module for dwelling. Rooms can organize and reflect the functioning of our interior world: the articulation of space and surface, color, light, dimension and material all modulate the way memory organizes itself around the affective life of the rooms we inhabit. We will take advantage of this intimate scale to go deeply into the development of an architectural design. In the first part of the semester, structured exercises will lead students through the analysis of: a spatial memory, an architectural artifact, and a work of literature in which a room plays an important role. These exercises will serve as guide for the translation of sources into material for architectural projection and design. Each of you will work iteratively between drawing and physical models to consider details and speculate on materials and construction. By moving between memory, measure and a close reading of the spatial and syntactic structure of the selected literary work, each student will build up an idea about inhabitation and the nature of dwelling through the design of a room.
Arts and Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2024. Devabhaktuni.
Catalog chapter: Art
Department website: www.swarthmore.edu/art

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