Aperture: domestic space / public space

Housing is not only the most intimate architecture, but as the major part of a city’s buildings, also forms its public spaces. It is where the occupants of all the city’s various spaces go home.

We started the year by exploring the relationship between domestic and public spaces, between the architecture that is occupied ‘at home’ and the architecture we think of as the city.

The first project investigated ideas of drawing and representation in describing a known domestic space and an associated public space. Our starting inspiration was St Jerome in his Study, by Antonello da Messina, and the essay on the painting by Georges Perec, in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces.

axonometric of room, approach to room and park views, by Nenad Djordjevic