EPOCH: Your Home as a Dimension of Time
The home is place of nostalgia and we as humans have the most acute memories of them. How often does one refer to a memory that occurred in their childhood home? How can we track these memories within our homes? Our home eventually becomes an expression of us and that expression gets shown in the way we layout space and arrange objects that best suits our needs. Many times in design, we focus too much on making the house an edifice for consumerism and not enough about the development of social interactions within the home and family. What if the measurements of your child’s heights became a physical link between your home and memory? Or the placement of pictures on the wall, what if the holes you created to hang them became a textured time capsule along a hallway or living room. These things could be a way we track our home as a dimension in time without remembering the exact time events took place.
This project will look at what the home can do as a dimension of time, from the short term to the long term. What would make us as the inhabitant think about what we do in our homes regularly and how it shapes our mood and expression?
