_ home essentials
tag: [work] [phygital] [digi]
date: 20191007
classification: Home Competitaion 2019
external link: thehomecompetition.com;
team: Haocheng Dai, Yue Di, Laure Michelon
status: honorable mention
Architects often impose preconceived ideas onto the design of a home. This project proposes an alternative and less politicized process that engages the subconscious, bypassing conventional domestic design strategies. By examining how lifestyle shapes subconscious behavior, the project investigates how these patterns can translate into architectural form. Rather than attempting to address homelessness as a social problem, the work frames this inquiry as a methodological study of how a home can be designed.
Anthony was interviewed about his cart, which functions as his home and offers insight into his personality, daily routines, and disability. The cart became the subject of an intensive process of cataloguing, analysis, and spatial organization. The objective was not to critique the form, but to understand its layout, adjacencies, and sequences through simulation. By taking apart, cataloguing, reusing, and deliberately misusing these objects, the cart was transformed into a proto-home.
Through a series of deliberately simple yet precise operations, the spatial object was reconfigured. Its scale was expanded to approximate that of a single family house, while accessibility was preserved by maintaining existing points of entry. This transformation establishes a new building logic in which social observation becomes a design methodology. Within this framework, the role of the architect shifts from author to guide, assisting the user in adding floors, spaces, materials, and openings in order to construct a home that emerges from Anthony’s subconscious patterns of living.
Anthony’s Cart
