Rebecca Merlic – The City as a House

In 1903 Hermann Muthesius said: “Japan is in many respects the country that comes closest to one’s dream of paradise.” The current situation in Tokyo allows for the emergence of a turbo-dense, capitalism-driven space generator for satisfying one’s personal longings and needs. Is a new form of nomadic living not only being constructed in digital and virtual space, but also in concrete space? Shifting privacy in non-domestic spaces can lead to different architectural consequences. The City as a House depicts an illusion of private ownership of a place we call home and transfers it into the cityscape where the human occupies a certain amount of space while moving or resting depending on time and need.
What does it mean to be freed from craving a nest? A strategy of successfully surviving without being bounded. It proposes a new form of society. The next self- improvement of humanity or going back to our roots. A visual novel built with a Game Engine to open up digital space for the human user to relive the experience and open up new spaces.