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• Interior Territories: exposing the critical interior
• Affective territories
• Finding a space for the practice of interior design
• TMESIS: insertions and subversions of interstitial territories
• Tender and true: the place the time the particle
• Urban interiors. Artificial territories: designing ‘spatial script’ for relational field
• Modelling the Interior: opening up the doll’s house
• The Given (Interior) World
• Only Within
• Spatial Entrails: themes from Surrealism and Psychoanalysis in the interiors of Sugar Suite
• The Great Indoors
• Making the Great Outdoors Better: the outdoor kitchen and the changing design of American luxury
• The Junction of Interior Territories: Chinese shop–houses in Chong Kneas, Cambodia
• From Intimacy to Infinity: exploring the role of interior in 3 short films
• bodies+spaces
• Lurking in a Liminal Land: making images for an ecology of territories and relations

Modelling the Interior: opening up the doll’s house

Ana Araujo and Ro Spankie

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University College and University of Westminster, UK

Abstract: Unlike the architecture that contains it, the domestic interior is not a solid entity, nor is it empty space. Rather, it is a fluid mobile field, filled with the detail of everyday life. Organic and self-organising by nature, the interior provides an enigmatic site for design research and innovation.

One of the problems facing the designer in discussing the domestic interior is the inability to represent it in three dimensions. What is needed is a modelling tool that shifts the focus from form to function, from whole to the fragment, from walls to wallpaper. This paper proposes to retrieve the doll’s house from the toy cupboard and re-examine it as a potential ‘modelling tool’ for interpreting and fabricating the domestic interior. Using a series of case-studies, we propose to use the doll’s house, firstly, as a critical tool to analyse the possible role of the model in the interior. Secondly, we propose to look at ways that the fabrication of a doll’s house might engage the student or designer in a process of making that is comparable to the practice of interior design.