Honours Topic

How can micro-housing be invested with poetics to engage and enrich the users’ senses and experience?

Micro-housing is defined as the miniaturising of home, reducing our spatial requirements to the bare minimum. There are many timely factors which contribute to our need to down-size, including the economic, social and environmental costs of a large house and the degradation and numbing of our sense and perceptions through material living.

Current architectural discourses concerning Micro-housing focus on its empirical aspects and its tangible benefits such as the potential for energy savings, instead of perhaps the more potent, intangible benefits, such as residential wellbeing and happiness.

Poetics has been widely used as a descriptive tool; however its capacity to influence architectural design has not been fully realised, and has the potential to connect the physicality of architecture with the thoughts, memories, dreams and stories that it evokes within its users.

In this research I will be literally living with and seeking examples of poetics in a building of 9m², to gain an understanding of how poetics can be embodied in micro-housing to enrich our senses and experience.

- This can also be found on the School of Architecture & Design; Postgraduate & Honours Students page.