HouseWork : Production in the house of today

Aiden Domican (Year: 2)

Commissioned by the Arts & architecture magazine in 1945, The Case Study House program intended to present a blueprint for modern living to the masses. The project questions the viability of the Stahl House (CSH #22) against the current housing crisis in Los Angeles and asks how the house of today can be redefined to reflect our current societal needs. In a society where our private and work lives have become completely intertwined, the illusion of the house as a space disconnected from the realm of production is longer possible. The around the clock data production in the house has dissolved the boundary between the privacy of the house and the public realm. The proposal takes a modest approach to its design and aims to create a generous living condition, whereby the fluidity of the design allows for a seamless life between living and working as well as comradery amongst the inhabitants. By stripping the architecture back to the minimum, the proposal hopes that it better performs its primary task of sheltering by exposing life in all its complexity and leaving its inhabitants free to produce, exchange, circulate and proliferate