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Exploring the opportunities of prenatal architecture, the Pregnancy Home is a temporary residence where families cohabit with the artificial womb. The baby moves through five womb vessels correlating to stages in physical and sensory development, and the family space is rearranged in response. The architecture becomes a pregnant body, relieving the pregnancy apparatus from burdens of physicality, and freeing it to become a purely relational process. This new and improved body discusses ideas of separation of subjectivities and softening of thresholds: between the foetus and the mother, between the individual and the family, between the family and the world.
The threshold spanning from the residential unit through the scheme and into the outside world is negotiated through drawings while standing on one leg. The development of this method of drawing explores how intuition, time, memory, and anticipation construct the perception apparatus, grounded in the three-time syntheses described by Gilles Deleuze. The off-balance, intuitive world of drawing without rationalising mirrors the intuitive foetal world that exists before logic. The two attempt a cautious dialogue in the project.
The house-as-reinvented-pregnant-body celebrates servicing, degrees of softness and organ-isation present in its predecessor.
As the senses develop the world emerges on vague, intuitive terms.
Tool and process for drawing perception maps.