Window from within: Investigating an architectural element through designing an artist studio collective
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and urban design (MPARC), MSc
Publicerad
2021
Författare
Johansson, Stina
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What is a window and what does it do? This thesis aims to explore the
window as a functional device from an interior perspective when situated
in a certain program. The main question is how the form, placement and
functionality of the window affect the sensation of an interior space.
A window is not inseparable from a house; whereas walls, floor and
roof might be the essentials of a shelter, windows are not fundamentally
necessary for protection. However architecture is more than protection
and in a society where we spend a big part of our days indoors light
intake and visual connection with the world outside affects our wellbeing.
Dense cities are challenging the admission of day light into buildings
and visual connections ought to be planned with integrity in mind. On
a stylistic level though; is it possible to separate the window from the
house, the detail from the whole? Windows can be controversial and
provocing and has been a source of conflict between architects and in
society.
Whether essential to create a space or not; the window contributes to
the sense of space. It is a connection between two spaces, an interface
between interior and exterior through admission of light, wind and view.
Looking it up in a dictionary it can even be explained as a space in its
own right.
This thesis will be carried out through reading, making case studies,
making site mapping and trying out different shapes and placements of
windows digitally as well as in physical model. The aim is to find a design
proposal for a studio collective for painters at an urban site, using this as
a vehicle for learning about window design.
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Houses, roads, skies, blue coastal inlets, mountains, opened their windows