HANNAH DORIAN
My room analysis is of a second bedroom of a couple who recently relocated from a 650 square foot studio apartment to a three bedroom townhouse. The increase in their living space allows for extra storage and a bit of breathing room in their domestic space. The bedroom door (HD Supply) opens into a room with carpet flooring. There is storage space and clothing rack in the 1’-9.5” x 6’-3.5” closet. The bed (Tempur-Pedic) is anchored against the west wall and flanked by a side table (IKEA) on the south side. The room does not currently have a working light fixtures so occupants in the room are reliant on light from the northern facing windows.
The guest bed has a 6’-1” wide headboard (West Elm), cotton blanket & Euro shams (Parachute Home), brushed cotton sheets & pillow cases (Parachute Home), cotton duvet cover (Parachute Home), duvet (The Company Store) and mattress (Tempur-Pedic). Above the bed is a decorative woven wall hanging (Jenni Kayne). South of the bed is a side table (IKEA). The closet has two 6’-11” sliding doors. It is used for extra storage and holds both suitcases (Hartmann Luggage) and excess hangers (Joy Mangano Huggable Hanger).
This Actor-Network map explores the question of how a seemingly mundane piece of travel equipment found it's way into a spare bedroom closet. The map dives into Hartmann Luggage's brand identity, the company's ownership transitions, concept of storage space and analysis of the functionality and construction of the the suitcase in question.
The organizational diagram highlights the space dominated by the bed, the side table, light coming into the room from the window, line of sight from the doorway into the room and the closet space.
This graphical composition represent the elements of the room. The two most important features of the room, the bed and storage space in the closet, are shown by the striped blue wavy outline and the bold sold green rectangle. The side table, which is the only other piece of furniture in the room besides the bed, is shown by the radial circular lines. The beige arrow represents the line of sight and primary entrance into the room. Finally, the overlay of a trapezoide of lines in light pink represent the light coming into the room.
The graphic composition was extruded in a sequence of moves to abstract the room. The elements of the bed were extruded by
increments of 1’ and raised along the z axis in increments of .5’. The side table was rotated and extruded to nearly the length of the room. The entry way was extruded to the same length as the side table and slightly rotated. The dotted line forming the line of sight into the room was also extruded to this length and rotated along the x and y axises.
The top down view shows how the area taken up by the bed dominates the space. The main entrance is shown by the tilted extruded triangle near the foreground. The closet is just west of the main entrance.
The final view shows the closet spaced marked by the extruded rectangle cut by the extrusion of the former side table. The curved pattern demonstrating the area of the bed has been raised in a wave like pattern. The former rays of light coming into the room from the window cover the entire space by the hatched pattern near the top of the structure.