Part of Encountered Trajectories exhibition, Salonul de proiecte, București

The house, an architectural object, fulfils functional roles, while the term home is not an architectural term, but rather a symbolic one. The idea of home is not an object like the building of the dwelling itself, but a concept that integrates memories and images, objects, experiences…the past and present of those who inhabit them. The relationship of attachment to a space is given by time, as the main building block of the affective processes that occur in that space. Consequently, the essence of the dwelling lies in the activities of the inhabitants and their lives rather than in the building itself.
Living in a space implies that a meaningful relationship has been established between a person and a given environment. This relationship consists of an act of identification, i.e. the recognition of belonging to a particular place. By choosing the space in which we live, we also choose a particular form of association with that space, but also with other people.
When we refer to the spatial experience of a dwelling, we are often limited to size and shape. Moving through the paths imposed by a building becomes an automatism and at the same time a mechanism for recognising a space. Dialectics
of route and target, of departure and arrival…of movement in general is the essence of the spatiality that forms architecture.
The project aims to analyse personal spaces from several perspectives. How do we imagine them, what meaning do they have and what associations do we make with them? The combination of personal images with archival images (various buildings of historical and/or architectural importance) and everyday objects tries to raise questions about how we influence spaces (and vice versa), both through personal experiences and social constructions. How we understand a space is not only a matter of our personal experience of that place but also of the image we or society constructs of the idea of personal space.