Spaces of Generosity

Spaces of Generosity: A room for Stillness and Silence

Schoonenberg, Arthur (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

van de Voort, J.A. (mentor)
van der Meel, H.L. (mentor)
van de Pas, R.R.J. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2020-07-02

The project investigates the possibilities for a way of working that connects a focus on qualitative and atmospheric qualities of space with a focus the way we inhabit and perform within these spaces. The first is often thought of as an individual experience, the second as a socially constructed one. To bridge this divide the project concentrates on the process of attuning: both as a process of making spaces and as a way of understanding the way we inhabit these spaces. Inhabiting is also creative: it is the activity in which a space, to a certain extend, is always re-created. The question then is how to see architecture as a generous and participating support for relations. A support hat is involved in life, not neutral but partaking; for relations to ourselves and our inner lives, to each other, and to our environments. Spaces that are generous and open to life. The site of the architectural investigation is one room in an existing building in Groningen that houses 15 people. This situates the project in a place and time as it joins in their ongoing life. The design tries to answer to a shared desire to make of this space a room for silence and stillness, for contemplative practices, to meditate, or to study. The process has been about getting to know the place, the people, even to formulate the programme of the room - and finding methods with which to do so.

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Student theses

master thesis

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