Jacy Ha Young Jun + Lila Sarraf

Rooms have historically been linked to their function and purpose. Varying in predetermined shapes, layouts, and gender-based identity. While this has worked for centuries, challenging traditional notions of spatial functionality requires the question of what a room is. Our thesis embodies the idea of rooms as an entity, an enclosure beyond mere walls and a roof. Exploring the room as a singular volume that can be adjacent, nesting, or intersecting to produce different circulation typologies and uses.

Our proposal for the Twin Dwelling competition in Glasgow, Scotland, uses the two sites to show the variations these rooms can attain both in section and plan. While each site asks for a different interpretation, the outcome of using the room as an entity allows for diversity. We see this as one optimal way of creating spaces adaptable to our ever-changing needs, creating social and sustainable spaces. No longer adhering strictly to the programmatic constraints of the past, such as Adolf Loos's Raumplan or Le Corbusier's open floor plan.

Louis Kahn offers the most insight into our thesis, describing it as a "society of rooms," where spaces should encourage circulation between the rooms, instilling a sense of community among the users. As we navigate through changing societal norms and architectural paradigms, the notion of what qualifies as a room evolves. Reimagining rooms as flexible entities capable of accommodating diverse programs and uses. Such as a collection of rooms as rooms for collective living.