TESHOW HOUSE
Teshow is a timeless infrastructure for adaptive domestic life where personal identity is subject to continual redifinition and the home circle is dissected. A hanging ceiling is able to strengthen durable collective alliances and with manipulable potential subject to changes by users throughout life.
It is a formal ascetic intervention that counteracts the inevitable exuberance, sophistication and superfluous excess of contents caused by globalization and media bombing. The pure and imperfect state of wood, the nudity of structural concrete and the honesty of showed facilities, build a visual hanging plane which approaches to the user's eyes to reducate his mind state toward the beauty of everyday realities in front of the abundance which will inevitably fill up his floor.
The action process starts from a preliminary cleaning phase to achieve maximum spatial freedom, suppressing all the unnecessary elements that cause borders and divisions in the current domestic habitat. The architectural components such as structure, facilities and envelopes are unmasked /exposed to recover their authenticity and materiality. Next, the energy efficiency of the architectural envelope is improved by a new interior skin with a high degree of insulation and the adaptation of the windows to optimize the solar and light collection. Finally, a wooden framework hanging from the ceiling is placed, creating a functional, visible and accessible plane for the manipulation, the adaptation of the facilities over time and the attachment of hanging elements. This wooden framework creates a spatial unity by removing the fragmentations caused by structural downstand beams. At the same time, it allows the user to confer personal identity to each space, projecting smaller scales of appropriation within a large scale.
The house is deprived of spatial divisions within a gradual scale allowing to recover the family circle. The architecture is not understood as the true home, but as the means to recover and upgrade affective relationships and familiar life. These aspects constitute the essence of the home through the construction of memories. The space allows a gradual spatial understanding and therefore different experiences. In a first degree, the luminosity intensifies from the facade, and the diaphanous spaces allow an intense and multitudinous coexistence. When going towards the inner courtyards the space gradually acquires more diffuse luminosity and becomes manageable through the use of mobile divisions suspended from the ceiling structure. In the deepest space of the house, light reaches its most intimate character and the space invites to take refuge and meet with himself.
