The Naked Room

LocationStudio 04, University Of Technology Sydney

Year2023

StatusCompleted

At the finale of Coperni’s 2022 Paris Fashion Week Show, Bella Hadid emerges naked on stage with a fine layer of fabricant sprayed on her body. The dress is like another layer of skin perfectly fitted her nude body. Architecture, like fashion, operates as an apparatus of the body - a series of skins, layers, structures, finishes, and ornaments that define the relationship of the body to the climate, social context and cultural milieu.

FIG.1Onstage, Typical Plan, Tracy Pham, Scarlett Pellegrini, Madeleine Siu

FIG.2Onstage, Tracy Pham, Scarlett Pellegrini, Madeleine Siu

FIG.3Onstage, Unit Plan, Tracy Pham, Scarlett Pellegrini, Madeleine Siu

Through the lens of adaptive reuse, we invited students to approach building renovation with surgical precision, carefully considering what needed to be removed and what was necessary to add. The central question was how to design the perfect ‘dress’ for an existing building - and how much intervention it required.

FIG.4The Pod House, Elysia Castillo, Mia Reilly

FIG.5The Pod House, Elysia Castillo, Mia Reilly

FIG.6The Pod House, Section, Elysia Castillo, Mia Reilly

In response to the increasingly expensive, commercialised and atomised nature of student housing in contemporary Sydney, students were asked to reconsider its role as a space for exploration. The studio examined how living, leisure, production, consumption, sleep, work and play might be shared and combined to form new modes of domesticity.

FIG.7The Naked Neighbour, Xavier Simarmata, Jade Richards

FIG.8The Naked Neighbour, Typical Plan, Xavier Simarmata, Jade Richards

FIG.9The Naked Neighbour, Xavier Simarmata, Jade Richards

Credits

UniversityUniversity Of Technology Sydney

CourseUTS Architecture Studio 04

Course CoordinatorEndriana Audisho

Design TutorCharles Curtin, Nettie Ni