Spaces

                Built                Sarovar Bodhgaya - Hospitality
           Creative School - Education
           Gallery 7 - Exhibition Design
           Restroom - Renovation

        
                Ideas               Earthing Interiority
              Rendering Visibility
              Echoes of Play      
              Garden of Learning
              Bodies to Objects
              Theatre for Life
              Community Center
              The Machine
              The Boat Club  
              IJberg Dwelling                     



Bodies to Objects

In an interior to self over time 

2022
Parsons School of Design
Individual Project







The focus of this project was to analyze and investigate a 1911 two-story brick building and is popularly known for the printing company of 20th-century female author Anaïs Nin. The goal was to explore the site as a source of materials, inspiration, and stories, considering the human experience, objects, bodies, and space over time. The process involved inhabiting and reassembling the site, using observations, documentation, and analysis to create a ritual that reflects the lived experience and our cultural background. The program created aimed to go beyond mere labeling, starting with developing actions or relations before naming it to avoid preconceived notions. Additionally, the site was reorganized to create zero waste, reflecting on what entered, left, and would leave the building.



The site was interpreted as a palimpsest of its varying occupational lives, transforming and adapting while carrying traces of its past.


 Delayering the site revealed uses that could be compared to the rituals of everyday life, such as knowledge sharing, recharging, physical well-being, grooming, nourishment, and unwinding. These Everyday Rituals have revealed themselves over a century through the changing occupations of the building. Therefore, the design intends to collapse these revealed Rituals of the every day into the everyday. The site is used as a quarry of materials, and through reassembly, the design aims to create a space that can transform itself, allowing the rituals to exist and be performed simultaneously in the same time and space.