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What turns a house into a home? - Hyundai Mostra Black
What turns a house into a home? - Hyundai Mostra Black
448, Rua Groenlândia, São Paulo, Brazil
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What turns a house into a home? - Hyundai Mostra Black
448, Rua Groenlândia, São Paulo, Brazil
What turns a residential space into a home? Its decoration? Its Objects? The people who shares the space? Or all the memories stored in it?
We ask the participants to answer this question on twitter @umacasaumlar and help us to construct our interactive wallpaper at Hyundai Mostra Black Exhibition in Sao Paulo.
The interactive space “What turns a house into a home?” seeks to instigate the visitors to think about the significances and subjectivities associated with our houses.
When we were invited to participate in the Hyundai Mostra Black Exhibition, we faced the perfect scenario to ask this question, after all, the house that will take us in has already hosted João, Amélia and their family and take us back to an important period of our history. The house, with its neo-classical architecture, was built in the early 1940’s and projected by the French Brazilian naturalized architect Jacques Pilon. This architect was very important for the historical Brazilian scenario, especially in Sao Paulo, between the years 1930’s and 1960’s. Along with the architects Gregori Warchavchic and Rino Levi, Pilon contributed to the Modern Brazilian architecture constitution and was responsible for relevant buildings in the city such as Pauliceia, in Paulista Avenue, and Mario de Andrade Municipal Public Library.
In our first space, the Entrance Hall, we invite all visitors to answer the question: “What turns a house into a home?” by twitting or sending a text message. This space shelters a red volume, with its form generated from a traditional house extruded contour.
The volume crosses all over the entrance area and its openings bring the visitors eyes right into the interesting architecture features of the house. The structure itself frames pieces of the history of the property and the family, objects that used to be left behind are revealing memories now, tiles that were hand-painted by the house owner with the family coat of arms are examples of that. These objects were found abandoned during the works, and if they used to be forgotten pieces they are now a fundamental part of our narrative. Objects tell stories and if they are good stories, they will become good design.
Upstairs we have a continuation of our space, where the visitors visualize their answers to the question “what turns a house into a home” on an interactive digital wallpaper that changes along the 30 days of the exhibition. The most frequently typed words get special relevance, and in order to be noticed they grow and behave differently from the other words. Sensors spread on the floor detect the vibration of the visitors and this information is sent to the wall, stimulating new behaviors on this habitat of meanings.
This wallpaper adds a virtual instance to the space, catching the visitors attention to the fact that our spaces are getting more and more hybrid, between analogic and digital universes, between atoms and bits.
The narrative ends up in the women’s public restroom that had its ceiling finishing and part of its tiling wall and floor covering removed in order to reveal its structure on an oneiric atmosphere where sanitary props talk to the visitors through the touch, revealing the thoughts of different people on the question “ What turns a house into a home?” Actors, musicians, designers, businessmen, celebrities and ordinary people share their opinion. Original lamps from other rooms of the house compose a central luminaire.
Would an interactive space be a catalyzer to turn a house into a home? How can we architects when projecting a space create a space that is blank, open, adaptive, and ready to be easily transformable by its owner? If time turns a house into a home, could new digital technologies contribute to reduce this time? Could they add new layers of meanings into our spaces?
We ask the participants to answer this question on twitter @umacasaumlar and help us to construct our interactive wallpaper at Hyundai Mostra Black Exhibition in Sao Paulo.
The interactive space “What turns a house into a home?” seeks to instigate the visitors to think about the significances and subjectivities associated with our houses.
When we were invited to participate in the Hyundai Mostra Black Exhibition, we faced the perfect scenario to ask this question, after all, the house that will take us in has already hosted João, Amélia and their family and take us back to an important period of our history. The house, with its neo-classical architecture, was built in the early 1940’s and projected by the French Brazilian naturalized architect Jacques Pilon. This architect was very important for the historical Brazilian scenario, especially in Sao Paulo, between the years 1930’s and 1960’s. Along with the architects Gregori Warchavchic and Rino Levi, Pilon contributed to the Modern Brazilian architecture constitution and was responsible for relevant buildings in the city such as Pauliceia, in Paulista Avenue, and Mario de Andrade Municipal Public Library.
In our first space, the Entrance Hall, we invite all visitors to answer the question: “What turns a house into a home?” by twitting or sending a text message. This space shelters a red volume, with its form generated from a traditional house extruded contour.
The volume crosses all over the entrance area and its openings bring the visitors eyes right into the interesting architecture features of the house. The structure itself frames pieces of the history of the property and the family, objects that used to be left behind are revealing memories now, tiles that were hand-painted by the house owner with the family coat of arms are examples of that. These objects were found abandoned during the works, and if they used to be forgotten pieces they are now a fundamental part of our narrative. Objects tell stories and if they are good stories, they will become good design.
Upstairs we have a continuation of our space, where the visitors visualize their answers to the question “what turns a house into a home” on an interactive digital wallpaper that changes along the 30 days of the exhibition. The most frequently typed words get special relevance, and in order to be noticed they grow and behave differently from the other words. Sensors spread on the floor detect the vibration of the visitors and this information is sent to the wall, stimulating new behaviors on this habitat of meanings.
This wallpaper adds a virtual instance to the space, catching the visitors attention to the fact that our spaces are getting more and more hybrid, between analogic and digital universes, between atoms and bits.
The narrative ends up in the women’s public restroom that had its ceiling finishing and part of its tiling wall and floor covering removed in order to reveal its structure on an oneiric atmosphere where sanitary props talk to the visitors through the touch, revealing the thoughts of different people on the question “ What turns a house into a home?” Actors, musicians, designers, businessmen, celebrities and ordinary people share their opinion. Original lamps from other rooms of the house compose a central luminaire.
Would an interactive space be a catalyzer to turn a house into a home? How can we architects when projecting a space create a space that is blank, open, adaptive, and ready to be easily transformable by its owner? If time turns a house into a home, could new digital technologies contribute to reduce this time? Could they add new layers of meanings into our spaces?
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