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The Awkward Privacy
Collective Living under Shared Economy
Team Member
Yu Zhang
Personal Project
Research on Co-Living
Duration
Fall 2018
Contribution
Research, Diagram, Visual Representation
Overview
If the intention of the shelter is about hiding from nature, is privacy a necessary demand of architecture? For example, cities, as one of the most representative artificial environments, have become places where individual’s privacy is compressed to a minimum.
From Spotify to Uber, Airbnb to WeWork, people are divided into individuals with more and more specific demands. Sharing rather than occupying, these services get people together into new communities. Under this background, the design tries to inspect the new public and privacy relationship in the domestic space.
Research
Privacy evolution along the history of public restroom
Research Diagram
Behavioral/spatial compexity in public restroom
Graffiti
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In short term, the stall is used privately
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In long term, graffiti can be seen by others, form a public communication
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Mark the territory. A form of public declaration and discourse.
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Anonymous can insert themselves into a wider conversation.
Glory Hole
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Public space that people can have physical interaction without being identified
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The hole can be sealed and opened many times before they are fixed
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An almost political expression against the rules of sex in the society
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Anonymous, allow temporary escape from the role they played in society
Strip Wall
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It is a private space with fully enclosed brushed-steel walls
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The nearby side is unknown and out of expectation, creating spatial tensions
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Men’s and women’s facilities nest into alternating undulations
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The physical separation creates a blurry boundary
Ideation
Adjustable privacy with liftable slab structure
The lifting floors allow residents to adjustment of the bedroom in height and in its connectivity to the public space in the center.
Development
Control privacy with layered space and lifting details
