The thesis will explore the redefined notion of architecture as both a hermetic refuge that encloses oneself from the extreme weather conditions and a responsive shelter that opens up to the extremes.
To study this new revised notion of architecture, a house, which is a fundamental form of refuge of human life from the extreme weather will be used as a basic program of the thesis. However, this house is not only the primary shelter to provide a secure shield to block out oneself from the exterior condition, but also it is in search of distorted atmospheres, account for the exterior condition, that becomes an artificial weather condition of the inside. Various natural weather conditions are the triggers of mutation, then the conditions are manipulated when they come into the house - they mutate temperature gradients, humidity indexes, air masses, luminosity, and scent; this distortion becomes an artificial weather conditions of the inside.
Thus as a result, by conflicting two extremely opposite concepts - a refuge and a responsive shelter, the boundary between natural and artificial weather becomes blurred in this scenario. It investigates various perceptions of ambiguous boundaries of “artificial/natural”, “controlled/non-controlled” or “inside/outside”, as well as a shift from architecture as a mere building to architecture as a conditioner of effects.
Situated at the intersection of binary conditions of natural and artificial, the resident of the house will be the main characters of the scenario - one becomes a user, and at the same, a witness of the designed program. Depending on various time frames of each season, the perception of a user may change. They physically and mentally experience and witness a blurred transformation from the natural conditions to the artificial conditions. Also as a resident who dwells at the house most of the time, one is easily able to observe and perceive the shift; he/she becomes a witness of the process of sensory amplification.
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