Architypes of Homes

Architypes of Homes explores social housing sectors of the UK, expressing socio-political ideas around urban expansion. The work is reminiscent my own memories of living in one of these sites, visually representing a lack of independent design with soul dependence on the building’s personal characteristics and traits. Exploring the domestic space without entering, rendering the domain as public, presenting the lack of unique structural characteristics. It uses algorithms to challenge the stereotypes of a home and the very frame it is made from, exposing the true colours within its brickwork, challenging personal memories with you, the audience.

 The home is a fundamental stage within physical development, imprinted in one’s mine; it’s colour, shape, layout, that small ding in the wall from when you were a child. The home is permanent within the human genetics to awe or regret, the home is scarred into the mind, slowly fragmenting over time. ‘Drawn in brown ink and was, this small, two-story stone cottage seemed to have little out of the ordinary about it. With its four windows, walled up on the ground floor, its single door, pitched roof, and chimney, it seems no more than the archetypal “child’s house,” a common place compilation of the fundamental elements of dwellings.’ (Vidler, A. 1992. P.19)