Melanie Volf

Minimum House

On the site, dwells a series of 12 linear organised buildings framing courtyards and corridors in the scene to demarcate inhabitation and occupation.

Adjacent to the solidity of these structures are negotiations of untended and tended land as extensions from the home, blurring the edges of permeance within the two spaces.

The site and lots celebrate the collective, but does not neglect the individual.

Domesticity is reduced in footprint through segmented abstractions and negotiations of the four spaces: bathroom, sleeping, living and kitchen to a modular whole.

The compositions of domestic gestures and familiarity renounces the idea of suburban living with subtle everyday poetics and ambiguity of rooms to project temporality in a fixed structure.

The devices: the architecture proper, the strict plan and set dimensions remain unprogrammed but are softened by an informal sensibility defining the routines of the ordinary life.