Housing Studio III: Fall 1997 Instructor: Kathryn Dean CAMPUS HOUSING Housing as a program is perhaps simultaneously one of the easiest and most difficult programs about which to create propositional ideas. Easy because we know it so intimately as a part of our daily li fe that its components and concerns are deeply understood requirements. Difficult for precisely the same reason. We know it so intimately that we sometimes lose the ability to question its inherent possibilities and therefore the inherent possibilities of the possibilities and desires of its inhabitants. The studio will use the program of housing to create a propositions about how a life could be understood and structured through architecture. The specific program of dormitory is understood as having two v ery different starting points. The first is dormitory as interconnected social structure ... the space of many ... the second is dormitory as intimate life space ... the space of one. The space of many starts with the most fundamental understanding of the nature of public space in its inherent continuities, overlaps, and linkages. It springs from the desire to connect us to what is outside ourselves. Its counterpart is the space of one with its interiority, enclosure, and desire for intimacy, quietness, an d introspection. Dormitory then becomes synonymous with the most fundamental desires of all architectures in their public and private aspects and allows for investigation of the states of mind suggested by and for those different spatial perceptions. The slippage, coincidence, or integration of these two scales creates the framework for the structure of both a life and a community. It is out of this inherent tension, opposition, or union that we will look to derive new understandings about the potenti als and inherent desires possible to understand through the framework of housing.