Flexi-Frame
A project exploring new strategies for designing the home 2007
In the world of today's building, purpose, program and event change rapidly. A single location can give rise to many simultaneous events. Within the home all rooms have become living rooms. Distinctions in terms of use are now time based, not made so much by the provision of dedicated spaces or services as they were in the past. Every room has a television in it and your mobile phone is always with you. Furniture and mobile partitions, rather than fixed walls, can define boundaries, to create and distinguish many of the desired activity zones. In this project we have focused on the capacity for space to allow or encourage change and flexibility. Architecture can be defined as a control system for our experiences of the world, filtering out the unwelcome and celebrating the desired. Architecture creates an artificial reality.
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