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What if I could bring and carry my home with me, and put it in a new house I moved into? Then, that portable home would help me to get grounded in the new house.
As spatial distance in the contemporary world is compressed and the spaces become indistinct by mass-production, housing spaces are rarely perceived as a true home. The traditional sense of home as a reflection of identity is being lost. The project aims to conceive a bookcase as a small space that expresses a new conception of home. I position the bookcase as mere furniture but as a small architectural space within architecture (houses).
I aim to create a bookcase that can become a portable small home and compensate for the unfamiliarity of indistinct houses. The practice presents how the bookcase can be realized as a portable home through a tactile material and symbolic form.
A series of bookcases proposes speculative ideas that view the bookcase as a new concept of home. Both a bookcase and a house represent the “self” by containing and protecting personal stories and identities.
Each section gives a short story illustrating how the bookcase transforms into a “portable home”, focusing on how it can become as portable and personal as the concept of home itself.
▷ Object: A bookcase is for a move like a suitcase
▷ Subject: Portable Home
A suitcase travels the world, filled with all kinds of items that reflect its owner’s personality. His friend “bookcase” had long admired the suitcase’s freedom. How handy to carry and portable to move. Even though both store personal items, they lived very different lives.
Eventually, the bookcase made up his mind to imitate the suitcase’s appearance to escape his constraints. He added wheels under his body and a telescopic handle to his back.
With his new accessories, the bookcase is no longer a passive object. He has become an active companion in every room.
▷ Object: Wear a bookcase like a helmet and bag, whenever you want to go anywhere
▷ Subject: Portable Home
Backpacks and bookcases. Helmets and bookcases. What do these things have in common? Is it possible for a bookcase to become a backpack or a helmet?
Both a backpack and a bookcase store and protect personal belongings. So why not use the bookcase like a backpack? By simply attaching shoulder straps and a lifting handle, it functions just like a bag. Now, wear your new bookcase and store your items in it!
Both a helmet and a bookcase protect something important, covering items from dust or any environmental hazards. Why not use the bookcase as a helmet? It can protect something important, like your skull or attractive items. You can even carry your bookcase by wearing it on your head, storing your gear inside the bookcase. Wear your new bookcase to protect and carry something important to you!
▷ Object: Flying bookcases
▷ Subject: Portable Home
Are you someone who isn’t a fan of reading e-books, but also hates carrying heavy books in your hands? In the future, flying bookcases will solve this problem.
The flying bookcase follows you wherever you go without needing a single command. It automatically hovers nearby, matching your every movement.
Enjoy the feel of reading real books anywhere with the convenience of a flying bookcase!
The project “Portable Home” creates a tactile medium for identity by conceptualizing the bookcase as a symbolic small-scale home. This intervention allows the individual to transport their personal history into the anonymous houses.
The finalized bookcase is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled like modular toys for the convenience of transport as a portable home.
27 (W) x 33 (D) x 134 (H) cm