Gosia Rodek
Pockets of the Interiors: Private Workspheres in the Open-plan Environment
We live in an era where the idea of privacy is more and more replaced
by a display. This phenomenon applies not only to our virtual life,
exhibited on the internet, but also to our physical life, in the
constructed environment. Since Modernist architecture introduced the
Open-Plan Interior, we function predominantly in public. This is
especially true in big cities, where activities like working,
travelling or dining happen in presence of others. Even if we agree
that humans are ‘social creatures’ benefiting from company of others,
there are moments when this is not a desirable condition. There are
moments when we are in need of finding ‘a pocket’ in our surrounding.
There are moments when we need an escape.
My thesis proposes such spaces of escape and privacy for our physical
environment, located in between our bodies and the rest of the world.
Gosia Rodek
Pockets of the Interiors: Private Workspheres in the Open-plan Environment
Gosia Rodek
Pockets of the Interiors: Private Workspheres in the Open-plan Environment