RESIDENCE IN A CHURCH PART I
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chapter a - intro
chapter b - an unseen family

An examination of human behavior through residential design.

How can architectural space describe the experience of the user? And how can the experience of the user begin to describe the physical space?

A residence is respected as a passive environment. One which is personally defined. What experience would a dwelling acquire if it were brought into a public realm? In this church redevelopment two residences are visually, and physically, intertwined to distort the sphere of privacy.

Through the narrative interaction of these two users, we begin to redefine the boundaries of public and private, of physical and psychological, the user and the used.

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