Based on the research on spread-in-the-city-domesticity, Andrés Jaque Architects produced their ‘Sweet Parliament Home’ based on the field work they have been doing in the last months in Seoul, South Korea and was presented at the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011. More images and brief description after the break.
Domesticity in Seoul is no longer something that happens in a single place: the house. But something that is constructed by connecting different spaces spread out within the city. Home is not spatially fixed, unitary and consistent; but discontinuous, fragmented and constantly changing.
Seoul is the strategy to segregate social realities to make daily life un-political. But every depoliticing strategy gets its response. A number of urban home fragments act as parliamentary spaces where diversity meets and is confronted. These are the fragments the project takes into account and prototypes.
Discussion can happen in a warm space based on affection. This is our proposal: To bring politics and conflict into ordinary life.