Category: Spatial
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

The project looks at three different scales at which human body interacts with its surroundingenvironment. From a small suitcase object, to a medium sized one room building, and eventually leadingto an infill apartment within a 4m narrow gap. The design seeks to question: how can we utilisetransformable features in our everyday lives to foster more interesting interactions with oursurroundings, hence new ways of inhabitation?

Each scale up the spectrum, are an accumuilation of observed ways of interaction between human bodyand space in the previous scale as a result of activating new surfaces. taken further, thus,accumulating to come to a solution for the 4m x 12m x 24m apartment complex. The design exploresthe interlocking of two separate units which façades are characterised by personalised timber modulesfilling a CLT skeletal structure, seeking to question the relationship between inner surface vs outer surfacethrough transformability, the tempoerary vs permnant in structure.

Following the completion of exploring spaces in the physical realm. An extended experiment with theconcept of transformable structures is completed within extended realities to explore the potentials ofhybrid spaces that allow for physical spaces to be overlayed into new functionable typologies, utilisingliDAR scanning technologies, mozilla hubs virtual spaces, and meta quest VR devices. Questioning thepotentials of future habitation that are not limited to phyiscal boundaries. The supporting videoshowcases the hybrid flats taken into action during lockdown times.