So, we’re currently looking into the idea of creating a ‘shell’ that will provide the wearer solace whilst disrupting the circulation of people around it. However, we’ve got a few issues with this idea:
How do we get the wearer to experience this disruption given that by wearing this shell, they are completely isolated?
Is this isolation even what we’re hoping to achieve - let alone within the scope of the brief. Bare in mind that the brief wishes to amplify the mundane & disrupt the everyday - both for the wearer and those around it.
I did however just have a brainwave (good or bad, time will tell) - what could this shell represent? Homelessness, dispondency, dispossession. Or at least, that is the theory.
Creation of this shell is going to be an interesting experience - I was struggling to come up with maquettes, let alone scale models that would represent the structure.
In the meantime, I’ve done more reading around Yakisugi House & Terunobu Fujimori, for the Cultural Context case study. Some interesting tidbits - Fujimori started as an Architectural Historian, and recevied his first commission to design a museum in his home town of Chino City. Fujimori is also fascinated with prehistoric caves - their form as well as the practicalities of how ancient humans lived. This has informed many of his designs - including Yakisugi House (literal translation - ‘Burnt Cedar’ House).