DOM
An organismic reorganization of space — a process in which a house carrying lifelong, entangled stories began to reveal its underlying architecture. The environment held fused timelines: unprocessed traumas of former residents, remnants of past lives, and the unrealized dreams of the present. These layers created a persistent uneasiness, a sense of spatial dissonance. The trajectory of the house was covered, folded into itself, unable to express its own coherence.
Through on‑location work, the project disentangled these fused temporalities. It activated dormant areas, reopened compressed zones of movement, and allowed the house to regain proportion. What emerged was an organismic habitat — a space capable of aligning its inner and outer surroundings, functioning as a coherent environment rather than a repository of accumulated histories.
The project was accompanied by a film documenting the house’s returning pulse. The footage traces the unfolding rhythm of the space: the shift from survival patterns to organismic presence, the settling of new trajectories, and the subtle transitions in daily life as the environment regained clarity. The film reveals how the house moved from fused timelines into a living habitat, showing its heartbeat as it entered alignment.
Brunnersberg, Switzerland - 2023