Siteless House
The 2020 pandemic has changed the expectations of our built environment and our daily interaction with it. Quarantining at home and the necessity of using every single corner of one’s apartment for multiple uses has challenged how we define the place and shift it from a static location defined by walls or furniture arrangement towards more creative and flexible solutions based on the connectivity and activity. To someone who has done his or her daily job remotely for 2 years, being in the office doesn’t mean being in a specific address anymore. It simply means to turn on the computer and log in to the office’s account, either from the bedroom, living room, or a cabin in the woods. There is no need for long commutes anymore. This has had a great effect on people who live in crowded cities and had to spend hours every day to get to work. But the pandemic is a temporary state and will pass. The question is how to celebrate what we learned from it and alter our design solutions accordingly. When we lose the boundaries between our home, our workspace, our gathering space, our shopping mall, etc, we will end up with sitelessness. This project tries to visualize sitlessness. It’s a boathouse that can function as a home, a workspace, a vacation destination as well as a means of transportation. The seamless flow of the interior spaces reinforces flexibility and creative use of space. The exterior is designed in such a way that the boathouse can perform as a unit that can be combined with other units and form clusters. Depending on the formation and the size of the clusters they can be considered as different rooms of a house, multifamily housing, or even neighborhoods.
