YU TING TSAI
My living room, as a centre area of my daily activities and circulation, connects to the kitchen, bathrooms, bedroom, and balcony. With around 9’ distance from my table to the sofa, the living room has sufficient space for me to stand while not using my chair, and also for me to unfold my yoga mat. With the wireless earphones, not only I can work with fewer wires on my table but also be able to walk around the whole apartment with audio still connected. The headphone for my digital piano allows me to play it without bothering my neighbours even in the middle of the night. The living is deployed into two main areas for working and for relaxing with an even proportion.
The living room with a vaulted ceiling is from 9’ to 13’ in the height. Under my adjustable table, there is an extension cord plugged in the outlet on the wall. It connects to the power of my monitor, laptop, and my adjustable table. On the left side of my table, it is a small station for the printer and the tablet. The desk on the right side of my table is usually used as an extended area for putting random stuff, like tissue papers, mug cup, and my pencil bag.
The left side of the living room is a working area with plenty of sunlight from the balcony, while it is an entertainment area on the right side where digital piano, bookshelf, and a yoga mat are set.
This Actor-Network map addresses the impact that digitalization and globalization have been making changes to my daily life through my furniture and household stuff. Digitalization and globalization not only influence people’s physical health but also mental health. The furniture and household stuff are evolved into the source of the carrier that transforms modern life. Globalization makes the interaction between different places become rapid and frequent. In the physical aspect, human and non-human objects can fast travel from place to place, while a simultaneous sense of being home and being away is subconsciously generated. Also, due to the connivance of fast traveling, people can choose to move all the old furniture and household stuff around the world without buying new ones, and create a sense of belongingness to the new place with them, just on a different scale. This behavior could be related to not only materialism and self-identity but also a psychological theory about attachment objects that provide a sense of security and emotional peace. Digitalization makes the furniture and household stuff contained with technological features. For example, an automatic adjustable table gives the flexibility of the way of working, while digital piano and wireless earphones are provided with the function of adjustable volume that gives the user and the neighbors a life of ease without bothering each other. Therefore, the impact of digitalization and globalization transforms our daily life and changes the way we behave psychologically and physically.
This organizational diagram of my living room addresses the zones of daily activities, the balcony, axis of symmetry, and circulation. The zones of daily activities and the balcony divide the indoor and outdoor areas. The axis of symmetry shows the deployment of the leisure area and working area. The circulation lines depict the connection from the balcony to the living room and from the living room to the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen area.
There are five lines composed in this graphic composition. The lines of the balcony and the zone of daily activities are dotted lines with sharpness on the corners. The axis of symmetry is set to be a wide dashed line that gets thinner on either end of it. The long circulation line transforms into a wide dashed line with huge gaps in between and its overlapped areas create crystal-like diagonal shapes. The U-shape circulation has the widest but the thinnest dashed lines that become radiate shapes.
This top view shows the extruded vectors from the graphic composition. The extrusions are 1.5’, 3’, and 4.5’ in the height. The radiate shapes from circulation lines create a density on the working area while the cylinders pile up reminiscent of the original elevation with the vaulted ceiling from 9’ to 13’ in the height. The lower area echoes the entrance of the bedroom and bathroom, while the thinner slices wall links to the kitchen area.
This series of horizontal section cuts show the symmetric deployment of the original living room. With a series of lower cylinders around the original balcony area, it reflects the direction of the original light source to the living room. The radiate shapes on the higher level connect with the piled-up cylinders on the north side of the wall illustrate the density of the furniture in the living room.
The perpendicular cylinders create the zoned areas and passages that imitate the former area of activity. The rectangular shapes from the original axis of symmetry are rotated and piled up as stairs that create different levels in the vertical sections. The series of sliced thin rectangular shapes spread out and increase the density and variations on the middle of either side of the perimeter.