P.03 - Outside and Inside Spaces

P.03 - Community Program

P.03 - Community Section

P.03 - HopperIntimacy Floor Plan

P.03 - Exploded Floor System

P.03 - Plan Iterations - Private and Intimate Space Extruded

P.03 Prototype - Structural Section

P.03 - Community Program

By Brooks Caton

P.03 - Community Sketches

By Brooks Caton

P.03 - Plan Studies

P.03 - Function and Materiality Explorations

Life Through Rear Windows

Left: Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954 - http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/back-life-grace-kelly-gallery-1.2008601?pmSlide=1.2008589 
Upper right: House NA, Sou Fujimoto, Ja 83: Emergent Spatial Frames p.41
Lower Right: HopperIntimacy community initial proposal

What does living in community means? Are our needs of sharing our lives via social media applicable to our houses? Can privacy be transformed into a collective experience? 

Excerpts from the book Intimacy and Isolation, by John G. McGraw:

"Insofar as intimacy requires actual physical presence of the individuals (...), technological means are useless to create any sort of actual literal heart-to-heart connectedness. Still,

these instruments may serve as

Early Morning, Early Concept: Community Design

Mentor Thoughts: Go Hasegawa

"I think that trying to understand things you don't know about requires a great deal of energy. And once you come to understand something, it leads to something else. The effort to try and understand something is an extremely noble pursuit. And once you make this sort of effort, trying to understand something might even be more important than the things you actually understand (the content). On the other hand, although I want to understand things, I'm afraid of what I might find out; and I want to create things, but I'm afraid of actually creating them. This might be because after I understand something, I create something, and then I have the feeling that I won't be able to get away from it - ie., if I focus so singlemindedly on the things I understand and create, I might not be able to see anything else."

Hasegawa, Gō. 2011. Hasegawa Gō: kangaeru koto, kenchiku suru koto, ikiru koto. P. 12 Tōkyō: INAX Shuppan.

Sound track: And You And I, Yes - Close to the edge, Deluxe Version

Anything is possible!

Maison à Bordeaux / Lemoine by Rem Koolhaas, 1998.

http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/revisiting-maison-a-bordeaux-lemoine-rem-koolhaas

P.02 - Design Fundaments

P.02 - Program

Really Practical

I can remember my first thoughts about the project that we had to develop during the semester. To me it was very clear: we needed to develop a house that would be considered “new”, since it would interact with its owner. The house would be an extension of the iPhone basically. It would use technology, being sensible to touch and to inputs. It would collect big data generated by its users, managing their comfort, needs, and in some extent, the space itself. The furniture in this house would

P02 - Conceptual Programmatic Study

The Society of the Spectacle and Black Mirror Reflections

As I was watching to one of my favorite series in the moment, I was sure that I would have to write about the first episode of season 3 of "The Black Mirror", by Charlie Brooke: Nosedive. It illustrates how society will incorporate social media to their lives in a much more profound way than sharing pictures and funny posts. According to the episode, social media would impact our acceptance in