Stuff-ing

In this seminar, I prepared material through self-guided research for my thesis. It would eventually end up in a much different place from where I started with this initial research; I consider both projects to be perhaps distant cousins of one another. Stuff-ing found its home in the relationship between domestic space and the objects stored within, while my final thesis evolved in a more institutional direction.

The research started with understanding domestic space as a condition of storage. In other words, home is where your stuff is. The work consists chiefly of research and theory examining the relationship between domestic architecture and the things contained within: I created a model and plan as a proof-of-concept of embedded storage within domestic architecture. John Hejduk’s 9-square grid houses were a perfect substrate to start with. The plan and model are adapted specifically from Texas House 7, in plan, an especially thin and regular design.

The shelf-and-drawer model strips back everything to position the infrastructure of storage, the shelf, as the primary spatial element. By collapsing storage into the substrate of domestic architecture, it proposes a domestic typology directly informed not by program or inhabitant, but by the objects stored within.

In addition, I also created provocations in the form of posters, inspired by Bernard Tschumi’s Advertisements for Architecture and the text-based artworks of Jenny Holzer. These posters act as a critical lens through which to read not only the model and drawings I created, but conventional domestic architecture as a whole.

Spring 2026, Faculty: Zeina Koritem, John Cooper