Can Heideggar's 'being-in-the-world' emerge from an Architecture of Essentiality?
Presentation of my thesis question to Roger Tyrrell and the rest of the Emergent Studio, with invited guests Adrian Carter of the University of Aalborg and Nick Timms of the University of Portsmouth's Landscape Studio. My question was expressed through the creation of an artefact - a stripped out dolls house with a cave space carved from one of its rooms, with a candle in the centre representing the hearth - to demonstrate that the essence of a house is a cave. I pose the question can design based upon first principles (rather than an established historical typology), create a truthful architecture that gives its inhabitants a greater awareness of their own existence; this will be explored in full for my next project, a Spiritual Retreat in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
