intelligent dwelling

The studio engaged in speculative questioning of what constitutes appropriate forms of inhabitation in the modern world by examining the lifestyle and community oriented needs of people. Students were invited to rethink humans relationship with dwellings in a future in which there is a global housing crisis and where current modes of home ownership and lease based rentals are become problematic and obsolete. In answering these questions, students designed future housing systems that combined social needs with ecological imperatives through technological innovation.

The revolutionary thinking that the studio sought was not confined to an architectural dimension. The idea of a physical dwelling space and how it is made accessible to a specific user group was also of critical importance. The rethinking of how our living spaces can be tailored to a specific need and can be made available to residents in new and unique ways lay at the core of the studio. Such an approach suggested the coming together of architectural design within a service design framework. This methodology aimed to understand the synergistic relationship between the physical world and the digital system. In doing this, the studio traversed the material and spatial concerns of the built environment and the digital interfaces that organise the finding, specifying and inhabitation of dwelling spaces.