Stav Dror

Tryouts on Living in the City: Not-Fot-Long-Home

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Instructors: Deborah Pinto Fdeda, Ifat Finkelman, Zvi Efrat

Together with Liran Messer

Awards:

2019   Archiprix International, Winner

2019   The Home Competition, Winner of Adaptability Award

2019   The Azrieli Foundation Prize, Finalist

2017   Honorary Thesis, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Not-for-long home examines the potential of living in a collective household made of various arrangements of the ‘dwelling unit’ – public on one side and private on the other, structuring all living functions on its rims. It offers varying configurations of objects, rituals and situations that maintain the tension between a lack of commitment and the possibility of leaving at any moment.

The unit explores the potential of neglecting conventional living spaces and their habitual maintenance. Storage is turned to display, with private objects placed on the private side, and shared ones on the other, creating a distinction between "what is mine" and "what I'm currently using".  Any wing of the building may be arranged according to different levels of sharing -  one may offer large common spaces while another may offer only individual households. Service areas like kitchen and balcony were placed at the edge of each wing while corridor intersections offer a large scale public space such as a library, study area or laundry room, structuring the floor plan as mutually dependent systems. The dwelling unit amplifies the performative aspect of living, creating a facade from the hidden and viewed, owned and shared, and explores the potential of living not-for-long.