“The Room” is a representation and a proposal for the life and work conditions of nomadic precarious workers today. This project brings up this issue of the uncertainty of their work/life because it goes frequently unnoticed, and is considered quite normal.

Today the nomadic knowledge workers and young practitioners experience blurring of borders between places where they live and work. The author here also being in this position himself, tackled the design questions of this situation by doing one-to-one scale experiments in order to present firsthand takes on the issue.

With this strategy, the project aimed to provoke radical thinking for affordable living/working spaces for young practitioners through inhabiting unused spaces of existing buildings.

Here is The Room in Kunstfabrik Am. Flutgraben building in  Berlin, June 2017.

The iconic window of the precarious room sticking out of facade. Photo: Ishka Michocka

This building is a semi-public and atelier complex, in I domesticated the unused spaces of its back staircase in order to respond to living/working circumstances of the precarious worker.

The room on the top floor occupied the highest, widest and brightest part of the unused space of the staircase.

The room is a flat platform; the bed and the table are flexible and fit within the thickness of the platform where they can be stored.

Photo: Ishka Michocka.

The elevated reading space, using possible vertical unused spaces in the shared spaces without blocking the access. Chair crawled in to the leftover space.
Photo: Ishka Michocka.

Collective staircase cinema, placed in the darkest part of the staircase. Using the existing potential of stairs as sitting space, and designing simple foldable chairs for these specific stairs to make it comfortable.
Photo: Ishka Michocka.