What are those thoughts that will move humanity forward into the future responsibly?

How can architecture help improve the quality of our cities? Our neighborhoods? Our homes? Our lives?

As architects, we asked ourselves “What is the simplest action that can be created that will have the largest architectural effect on a human beings experience of being alive”. Out of this questioning we found a poetry where one can say “It is not how well we live in life that is important but rather how well we experience the qualities of being alive in our living, that matters”.

As architects we know that architectural spaces directly affect emotions and over time personality and even the physical presentation of our selves.

With this poetry of space in mind we designed this one room. One room that does not need artificial light, or heat to make it a useable space. One room that can exist on its own and in companionship with any other space.

In this design, this one room space creates a quite space. It frames an edge of outdoor space that becomes a living and dinning space in the summer. It becomes as comfortable to live and eat in this outdoor summer space as any indoor room. In the winter it becomes a silent space, whose importance is in just knowing that it is there and will become an active space looked forward to in the coming summer.

In a poetry of space we see the future of Architecture. We see architecture in an expression of its site, client and the spaces around and within the architecture.

If one were to express architecture as frozen music, and music as flowing architecture, then a poetry of space can be envisioned as the source of both.

We see the future of architecture in this experience of how well we experience space and how well we experience the qualities of being alive in our living of life in space with others.

There are 6 billion people on earth. Each person strives to experience a quality of life in their living. No matter where one lives the qualities of architecture “one room at a time” will create the consciousness that will move humanity into the future responsibly.

- This structure is approximately 8’ by 12’ and is built out of prefinished interior and exterior wood panels along with salvage doors and windows with a roof of polycarbonate translucent panels. It took one week to build.