Box-office
Basteln, 2023The attempt of making a space a bit more cozy
"Salvaging a good time" was the theme of my solo semester in the academic year 22/23 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. It was important for me to contribute something to the class community and to put the common good above a shiny product, which made surveying the class the first step. Soon it turned out that the desire for a small room-like space was great, so I started pondering. After an intense research concerning the semesters theme, I found parameters that the material I wanted to work on should fulfil.
Namely: Be unagitated in color, have pleasant acoustics, convey a feeling of warmth, be easy to work with and expand. These four parameters were met by one material: Cardboard
Since I was working with a sculptor, Peter Sandbichler at the time, who among other materials works with old bike-boxes, I had access to the material I needed. After modelling the whole project in Rhino, i started cutting and bending the parts needed. In order to increase the sound-insulating effect, cardboard panels were inserted in the partition walls, which are decoupled to prevent noise from being passed on.
There is a reason for the absence of a door.
Since the project is intended to serve the class, it was important to make access as easy as possible. a door would have acted as a deterrent at first and let the project appear as something private. It is desirable that a door or many other extensions are added over time, because that was one of the reasons for the choice of material: easy expandability.
![final outcome](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fb1dc6adc-341a-4cde-9838-6badbe49b6e6%2FDSC00417.jpg?table=block&id=0d68a17c-36de-4e27-957e-c4fe571f7ddd&cache=v2)
![look inside](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Ffb96a31f-ee36-41d7-b18f-77472ab2a2f8%2FDSC00435.jpg?table=block&id=a5f0b593-f27d-44ae-a770-237613365f57&cache=v2)