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Drop Houses
Drop Houses explores the physical implications of our digital lives. The configurations of these hybrid environments pursue new forms true to the online reality of our everyday, rather than nostalgia for the pre-digital. The positive aspects of the streaming life - creative affirmation and self-building - are embraced as new signifiers of the domestic.
#Post-Internet Architecture #Spacial Experience
Drop Houses explores the design of our physical environments based upon the reality of our online life. Throughout the ages, our physical surroundings have reflected our cultural behavior. In this highly remote era, however, with virtual portals now a part of regular domestic space, our cultural behaviors and life moments occur increasingly online. The home will be to the virtual space experience what the body is to the physical experience of architecture. The scenarios explored in this project examine the integration, overlap, exposure, and ownership of both digital and physical space in the future home. Drop Houses considers the reciprocal influence of the everyday digital and the everyday physical, proposing new types of hybrid space. The forms and configurations of these hybrid spaces are determined by the residents’ various forms of online life – including both their professional and personal identities. It acts as a positive tool for creative self-affirmation, a practice of self-building. This project explores these new hybrid social spaces and attempts to challenge our perceptions of domestic ritual, residential architecture, privacy and intimacy, personal identity shaping, and social norms.
The New Notion of Home
Throughout the ages, our physical surroundings have reflected our cultural behavior. These are the "semi-private" spaces, which are the resident's private property but exposed to the public. It reflects the culture of showing life and hiding privacy.
Changes in Digital Era
In this era of highly remote, with the introduction of virtual portals in domestic space, such as televisions, personal computers, and smartphones, whether for work or entertainment, our cultural behaviors and life moments occur more in virtual spaces. Part of our house has become a hybrid semi-private space and provides a new experience for residents.
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How would our physical surroundings
reflect our digital life?
Episode 01
Cloud House
In the Cloud House, spaces visible in the backgrounds of online video meetings merge to form AR clouds. These accumulate and occupy the house as phantoms of our online lives.
Episode 02
“ON” House
Objects, spaces, and even people in the “ON” House are modified to co-exist with constant live-streaming. The redesigned spaces and loungewear not only enable elective privacy, but formally reflect the contradiction between integrating and separating digital and physical life.
Episode 03
Content Factory
The Content Factory is structured around an infrastructure of live-streaming, positioning “real life” activities in parallel, embracing the contemporary hybrid, prismatic self in the most fundamental expression of the domestic.
Episode 04
House of Influencers
The House of Influencers is optimized for the super-influencer. It is nomadic, allowing glamourous and exotic settings, and its form is comprised of conical studio-rooms, ideal for fashioning the ideal post.
THESIS PAPER HERE