Home-Made
This design project investigates how interior design can meaningfully respond to the homelessness crisis by transforming overlooked and unoccupied spaces into dignified, flexible homes. Through the creation of bespoke customisable units that adapt in size and configuration. This design empowers rough sleepers to reclaim agency over how they live and moves beyond temporary shelters toward the creation of personal, more meaningful homes.
Grounded in statistics and literature on homelessness, social architecture, and inclusive design, the research draws on theoretical frameworks from Edward Relph’s Place and Placelessness, Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space, and principles of Emotional Design to contemplate what constitutes ‘home’ for those without one.
The project is developed in both physical and digital explorations which sees a series of model-making experiments in combination with physical computing towards the goal of a working prototype module and interior shown through the lens of digital rendering. This project offers a speculative human-centred vision for inhabiting forgotten urban voids with care, autonomy, and adaptability.
