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Jae Young Jo

Jae Young Jo

Watertown, MA, US

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The Once Again Scared Home

I neither belong here nor there.

The modern individual’s contemporary nomadic lifestyle has given rise to this new existentialist problem. Houses are subdivided to maximize the number of rooms and occupy more tenants to lower living costs. The idea of home has become ambiguous in the absence of permanence. The proposal conveys a near future where distance is an obsolete worry. Technological advancements inform a new type of accessible urbanism and hybridizes artisanal craft with digital fabrication. 

A new urban culture emerges where the domestic space is once again sacred. Loci communities are restored with common spaces shared between homes. The personification of home as an interior monologue is in exterior dialogue with the new urban context. People have the opportunity to live in a house as opposed to a room. And the architect designs for a user or household who intends to age in one home over time.  In recreating permanence, the autonomous user determines how the architecture becomes their home, and how their home ages with them over time. 

The future of home from that point is yet to be unwritten.

 
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Status: Competition Entry
Location: N/A
My Role: Design Member
Additional Credits: Iris Kim
Ivan Tae