Leonardo Bonanni, Joy Wang (USA)
Category B Chinese Style
Studio Unit

Life is hard - Home is soft
The body is universal, yet the modern world alienates it. We are creating a system for softening the concrete shell of the apartment to fit any of our bodies. The basic daily rituals - bathe, cook, eat, work, rest - form the landscape of home. We experience them in the morning, before we leave, and again at night, before we sleep. Hence the bed plateau looks out over sunrise and fresh morning air. The soft clean bed slowly pushes us to face the day. Following the sun, we wash our face at a washbasin next to the bed. The warm water trickles into a bath, waiting for us to follow. The first movements are slow and soft to acquaint the body with the world. From the soft fabric of the bed, we slide along silicone rubber into a contoured tub. Here the body starts to stretch, bend, sit up. Fresh and clean we stand, for the first time, and begin to look around. On the wall images of our favorite information start appearing. As we walk to the kitchen the images follow, helping us to know the coming day. The kitchen wakes up too; stove and sink arrange themselves to rest under our fingertips. We cook and our countertop follows us back into the sunlit space, where eating ushers in the productive day. Desk and drawers also spring into action, offering the perfect surface to begin our work. As the sun leaves the plateau for the kitchen valley, our day slowly draws to a close and the same spaces are revisited to prepare us for sleep, and the next day.


M . : . Utopic ideas are found here. It is important that new environment is presented within the current environment. It seems that the kitchen and bathroom area can become a project. This drawing work can easily be adapted into the actual product at any moment.
I : . Even if this work becomes an actual product, there is room for practical use. Also, the presentation itself is very outstanding.
K : . This work has solved the problems of 'detachment from nature' which had always remained as an unsolvable question in collective houses(apartments).
P : :. The perfect naturalism is similar to a complete nudity.