Throughout history, storage existed everywhere. But exactly where and how? What are spatial and physical setting? How did we store and why? What are the processes, purposes and cultural influences? This intensive design research focuses on understanding and delineating the spatial and cultural backgrounds that form personal and private storage spaces to keep physical belongings. The objective is to critically view the existing and preexisting type, typology, paradigm, culture, and spatial logic of storage. The research provides a re-classification of storage types, and synthesizes these types into a “Storage Scape–atlas of storages.”
STORAGE SCAPE
Atlas of Storage Typologies
Research Exhibition
Providence, RI
Atlas of Storage Typologies
Research Exhibition
Providence, RI
This research project was comprised of essential information such as name, location/region, time/period, general dimensions, user, content, key characteristics, and analytical representations. We explored storage in, but not limited to, domestic space, workspace, transportation, public space, and nature. The studio examined storage from ancient history to modern times as well as precedents from seminal designs and fictional examples from film and literature. The information was documented without hierarchy or preconception in order to form a new categorization of the spatial evolution of storage. The new categorization of typologies was developed by analyzing precedents based on five categories.
The first category of Architectural Context is divided into two subcategories depending on whether or not the precedent is an independent structure or requires a host structure. The second category of ‘Frequency of Use’ is divided into daily use, periodical use, and longterm infrequent use. The third category of ‘Ownership’ is broken down into public and private. The fourth category of ‘Content’ is divided into single kind or multiple kinds of content being stored. The fifth category of ‘Visibility of Content’ is divided into hidden or visible. This re-categorization of typologies allowed us to question the spatial design of this infrastructure in our own design work.
