Kamsai's Voice:
The Lazy House
Throughout
the project, I have been focusing on the idea of comfort through laziness. This
family of four is extremely lazy, the father is a programmer who sits in front
of the screen all day, and he rarely takes a shower. The mother is a painter
who always creates mess around the house, and she is too busy to clean it. Both
of their kids are still in high school, but they inherit the same habit. The
family spends their free time on video game that the father developed, so they
only have to move their fingers. Lazy people tend to reduce the amount of
movement as much as possible, and they will find the easiest way to complete a
task. Therefore, I develop substitute solution for some activities. For
example, instead of using the kitchen to cook proper food, it is actually a row
of refrigerators filled with frozen food, more than enough to feed the family
for a week. The clients also order dinner from street restaurants in front of
Soi Sukhumvit 38, delivered home by motorcycle taxi. By consuming the pre-made
food directly from the package will also help reduce the amount of dishes they
have to wash as well. Instead of doing the laundry, they send it out to the
laundry service once a week on Sunday after they come back from the
supermarket. Basically, this family rarely does things by themselves, but they
find other methods to get things done although it might cost more money.
Starting
from the smallest scale, I identify the main activities of the clients to
determine the level of physical effort of each action. For example, taking a
shower requires both upper and lower part of the body, which uses more muscle
movement compared to playing video game, so it is categorized as high level of
effort. In a larger scale, I arrange all activities with the same physical
effort into the same area, so each space will be separated according to those
levels. One area may include activities that are totally different from each
other as long as they have the same physical effort, such as having the toilet
in the same space as the living room. Then the arrangement of each space has to
follow a system, by using the shortest distance possible from one commonly used
place to another, or having the most convenient way by arranging space with
similar usage near each other, such as having the kitchen near the dining
table, or the garage near the storage shelves.
