BOOKWORM HOME
COMPLETED
FUNCTION: Single User Apartment
FLOOR AREA: 40 m2
LOCATION: Geylang, SINGAPORE
In a climate of low interest rates and market speculation, the “shoebox” apartment evolved purely out of square footage yield, seemingly unconcerned with the immanent criterion of “housing” – the possibilities of framing “forms of life”.
The inability for most people to contain and organize their living conditions within a space of less than 400sqft makes for the usual appropriations of the “shoebox” as a generic temporal rental apartment or short term stay and the excessive employment of visual trickery to “maximize” the illusion of space.
The proposal attempts to confront the very limitation of space by organizing and framing the owner’s essential praxis of reading. 3mm steel sheets are folded to form modular shelves, benches and storage that defines the hallway, doorway and living space. The thinness of the shelves disappears as it is loaded with books, allowing the array of book spines and categories to form the final image of the house. These shelves which embodies the idea of “home” for the book-lover can be reused in a new house if one day the “shoebox” is sold.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: Framesg