A B S T R A C T
As architectural practices and paradigms become more technical, regulatory and sustainable, they become further removed from ideologies and scales identified by theorists. One of which is an architecture of intimacies. As many architects necessarily overlook the endless range of intimacies that can be exploited from particular drawing scales, I feel that this provides an opportunity for designers to utilise drawing at appropriate scales to best express this intimacy. This research project draws from an analysis of texts, ideologies, working methods and built projects of theorists and architects regarding the intimate relationship that bodies of inhabitants share with architecture. I use this research to critique an existing design project to determine in what factors and architectural scales this intimacy is lost. I will apply this research to produce refined drawings for this architectural scheme to address whether this intimate relationship between the body and architecture can be further enhanced across all architectural scales. Co-housing groups are changing the way housing is afforded, procured and lived in. This research project explores the potential architects have to contribute to this change in how housing is designed. Through communication with community-focused housing groups, the creation of intimate architectural moments for the inhabitants can be achieved.
An architecture of IntimaciesDesign Research Drawings
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