SPACE is the second studio in which the students work on architectural design for eight weeks. They work with specific questions, contexts, situations and clients. The studio is set up and guided by architect and researcher Nasim Razavian from studio ilinx. The topic of the studio is “House of Phobia”. In the studio brief she states:
“Architecture has the potential to affect the psyche and the body. However, what is dominant in most practices of space-making today is merely utility, efficiency and profit. The relationship between spaces and affects is usually overlooked in contemporary cities and buildings. Starting from such a criticism, Studio SPACE: HOUSE OF PHOBIA focuses on interplays between space and fear. The students are asked to design a house for a real or imaginary person with a spatial phobia. Through doing that, they explore that phobia’s spatial implications, manifestations, and stimuli. They also delve deeper into the notions of “the self” and “the other”; even if the client is themselves.
The studio explores two types of interiors: the interior of the mind and the interior of the house. Indeed, the two are highly interrelated. How are these two interiors influencing one another and how can architectural design respond to that?”