A Model

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A Model

Firm

Rad Louda & Wrkshp

Type

Residential › Apartment

YEAR

2010

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

$0 - 10K

Rad Louda & WRKSHPA Model
Definition:
A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for
its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its
characteristics.
A Model is
a scaled-model in life-size proportion that represents a generic contemporary
domestic environment.
In 1972 was
held at the MOMA in New York an important exhibition called Italy: The New
Domestic Landscape. The exhibition presented an extremely rich and diverse
collection of young and accomplished practices having in common an interest in
what could or should be the future of our domestic environments.
Retrospectively this exhibition is seen as the peak of a worldwide
architectural phenomenon lead by a young generation of architects from the
early 60's. Those architects were working on different models of our future.
Most of their proposals took the form of small industrialized cells, functional
and extremely flexible. Those domestic landscapes were considered as models for
a new life style, able to solve or react to the new changes, to the images of
the near future.
Economical
crisis, ecology, individualized and globalized life are some of the
characteristics that the 70's share with nowadays. As young architects we are
interested in how people before us dealt and reacted with their own
contemporary conditions. Our project named ‘A Model’ explores the models of
housing conceived at this time and try to propose a critical redefinition. The
project is an 'a posteriori' model investigating the present and the banal. A
Model is a representation of a dense and generic domestic landscape.
A Model is
a representation of a 150 sqft apartment. The space is organised in 4 parts.
The minimal and sufficiently furnished apartment provides basic functions with
as added value a personal outside space. Each furniture was conceived as an
archetype of its function: a chair looks like a chair, a bed like a bed. A
Model is entirely made of foam, a material used worldwide by architects to
realise their volumetric studies, that is to say their model's research.
Firstly, it was conceived in Brussels at a 1/5 scale. It was build and
experimented in life-size proportion in Tokyo. A scaled-model at scale 1/10 of
A Model will be shown soon in Ljubljana. As such, A Model is used as a global
generic space.
Meant to
perfecly fit in a 20 ft container, the project takes, as its hard cover, that
standard, industrial box, easily transportable and compilable, so often being a
subject of exploration as a housing alternative from the early 60's till now.
This project tries to investigate the blur existing between paper architecture
and built one, between ideals and reality, A Model is not an
utopy nor a distopy. A Model is a proposal for an one bed apartment made in
foam designed as generic as possible. It is seen as one of the possible
reactions of young architects towards the contemporary housing subject.
A Model is
not the representation of a project, the representation is the project.

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