Residence: home as a changing system of memory, routine and use
Dwelling is an initiative research and report project developed by students of the Faculty of Architecture and Design at STU in Bratislava. The project explores how memory, daily routines and human presence are constantly shaped residential interior spaces. Through the immersive space facilitiesviews, soundand archival material, the exhibition reveals housing as a dynamic and evolving environment.
The project approaches the house as a continuous process and not as a fixed object of design. It examines how routines, habits, personal adaptations and accumulated traces of use continuously shape domestic environments over time. The exhibition is structured around four articulated spatial units that reveal fragmented readings of a house interior. Instead of reconstructing complete rooms, the installation presents abstract spatial conditions and selected household objects that suggest human presence.
a student-led exploration of residential indoor conditions | image of Monica Stachou
projected images and sound form a multi-layered reading of the house
Visitors move through a series of environments where projections, sound, archival photographs and spatial interventions form a multi-layered spatial narrative. Through projection mapping, the design team introduces visual content derived from archival sources, collages, housing-related datasets, and architectural drawings. A corresponding sound environment, created from housing statistics and domestic recordings, extends the spatial reading of the installation and translates the research material into an acoustic layer.
Combining exhibition design, spatial narrative and qualitative design research, Dwelling proposes an alternative perspective on the interior of the dwelling. It suggests that the meaning of a dwelling is not defined solely by architecture or furniture, but emerges through the continuous interplay between space, time and human presence.
Dwelling examines home through memory and routine | image of Monica Stachou
interior space framed as a continuous process | image of Monica Stachou
domestic environments shaped by cumulative use | image of Monica Stachou
house understood beyond fixed architectural form | image by Martin Kováč
four modular units structure hashed internal reads | image of Dušan Kočlík
spatial fragments replace full room reconstruction | image of Dušan Kočlík
visitors move through successive immersive installations | image of Dušan Kočlík
abstract spatial conditions suggest living environments | image of Dušan Kočlík
household objects show traces of human presence | image of Dušan Kočlík
