The prototype design of the window extension can be adjusted according to different Windows and space size, to achieve a more flexible external space for the residences.
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View through the frame
From the opening of the device itself and the hollow form of the external bridge space, zoom out visual sense is formed, which represent the concept of ‘aperture’, but it could also be a ‘Pause button’ for people to get access or not
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Extension for working leisure
This space expresses the concept of a ‘security blanket ’, and the picture shows the leisure time during work. From this point of view, the translucent glass acts as a vague protective barrier.
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Elevation_2 Night
Functional changes can provide new entertainment for surrounding residents at night
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Overlook of the bridge function between the two residential building
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The bridge is a connection and expressed the ‘loop’ idea when people are standing in there, they been in the centre of the surrounding buildings, which represent the ‘pause button’ concept, to have a thinking of how to ‘being’ in the space.
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From the perspective of the Heterotopia (Foucault, M, 1967), the parasite architecture act as a long-term intervener of the city. The pandemic is a warning which tells that the town we live in today is large enough. What we need when an epidemic occurs is not making any more high-rise buildings, but converting as much space as possible. The outbreak has brought a ‘new normal’ to our society which triggered people to think about the changes in living areas, lifestyles and relationships between each other.
The implementation of the quarantine policy has pressed a ‘pause button’ on people’s lives, which has forced people in isolation and re-examined their surroundings. The lockdown policy has enforced for nearly half a year. It has imposed an impact on people’s psychological state of social interaction. According to the questionnaire, the most common mental activities during the quarantine have two categories: one is the urgent need to interact with others to release one’s loneliness; another is the fear of social interaction after being quarantined, which leads to the autistic state.
In this project, the spatial connection explored with the window is a metaphor for the relationship between people. The existence of the window is embodied in both public and private sense when two hidden spaces behind the window are connected. It has formed a spatial intimacy, which has reduced the boundary of the space and encouraged people to get across the loneliness and the state of the autistic state.
The prototype design of the window extension can be adjusted according to different Windows and space size, to achieve a more flexible external space for the residences.
From the opening of the device itself and the hollow form of the external bridge space, zoom out visual sense is formed, which represent the concept of ‘aperture’, but it could also be a ‘Pause button’ for people to get access or not
This space expresses the concept of a ‘security blanket ’, and the picture shows the leisure time during work. From this point of view, the translucent glass acts as a vague protective barrier.
The bridge is a connection and expressed the ‘loop’ idea when people are standing in there, they been in the centre of the surrounding buildings, which represent the ‘pause button’ concept, to have a thinking of how to ‘being’ in the space.