Millbrook, New York, USA
Housing Prototype
Built Area: 1000m2
Professional Project: Studio Fierro
2020
This design exercise led to how short-term living shelters could create conditions that support contemporary ways of living while experiencing life in the woods. Using a 5x15ft space constraint, the spatial program transforms into both living and working space, providing different conditions to exist in each. Just like Heidegger’s hut, the cabin has a concentric scheme, blurring ‘private’ space as such. The house, for Heidegger, was an existential act that held the realm of one’s interior. Nearby produced bricks compose the monolithic expression of the cabin in the surrounding woods, showing the passage of time and the composition of the material.
Thoreau acknowledged how solitude is an experience defined by being with phenomena. Considering the relationship individuals can establish with nature can awaken the inner need to think about their own ways of life.