The Stor(age)y of Things

The architecture(s) of consumption

Ownership: the act, state, or right of possessing something.

Consumption: the act of buying goods.

Our consumeristic approach to ownership has led us to collect objects and accumulate them as archival elements. If the distribution centre acts as the main storage facility, the house then becomes a ‘shed’ as part of that collective storage; ultimately, the house is the archival storage of our desires - a support unit. The projects rejects the notion of a particular site as the global impacts of logistics and consumerism have overtaken the mass of cities. The standard urban block of sixty units is taken as the general measurement of intervention, where the spaces in between those units hold as the sites of intervention.

The new method of consumption is that of sharing objects. Our archival elements becomes needs for different uses and different times. The inhabitants of those urban blocks are then amalgamated; alongside the notion of ownership of consumption. It entails a sort of collective distribution centre in the communal space - a communal archive. Partition and boundary walls are diminished and replaced with a continuous system and the block is envisioned as a large area of different spaces, functions and subjects.