On the Making of Home is a designerly exploration under the realm of phenomenology of architecture, and specifically based the work of Gaston Bacherlard of his book The Poetics of Space.
The design-led research revolves around the concept of “image”, a pure production of imagination as Gaston defined. The concept of image is meaningful to architects as they study to realise and recognise the origins of unconscious origins of poetic spaces.
The aim is to use the understanding of image to recreate and reproduce inhabitable meaningful space. At the same time, by conducting making on home, a new, personal, yet universal, understanding of home will be imagined.
The design thinking is based on translation. This is a making process from discovering image, transferring or projecting the image as a space that has the same imaginative nature.
‘Image’ is a powerful concept in our search of meaningful inhabitable spaces. Studying and recognising images is a potential way of creating our own ideal living condition.
There is no universal instruction of using images for designing spaces. But it is clear that the making process goes from irrational feelings on images to a rationalisation by examining its generic form. This prepares the design of a specific space which has the same imaginative quality of that image.