The Environmental Bubble

2024. Architecture

A project explores the concept of thermal comfort in residential architecture, emphasizing a climatic approach that
balances the physical needs of the human body with subjective well-being.
Umeå School of Architecture

Tutor
Daniel Movilla Vega(Cordinator)
Matte Harder





The study critiques traditional energy-intensive heating and cooling methods,
proposing a design ethos that aligns with principles of sustainability and the adaptive thermal comfort model.







Figure to right: Anatomy of a dwelling. François Dallegret, Illustration for “A Home Is Not a House”, 1965. Published in Reyner Banham, A Home Is Not a House, Art in America, April 1965.














Mapping comfort attributes

































An architecture that investigates the integration of air and heat as building materials in Swedish residential architecture









Invasioning a radical domesticity

proposing a “comfort bubble” for its residents—an environment in which life unfolds without the need for solid walls or conventional spatial separations.


Domestic Fiction 1










Domestic Fiction
imagining a dwelling type in which its residents live actively around a standard living package.





















Towards the Swedish standard living package.



 











Swedish standard living package

Inspired from critiques by the radical precedent Rayaner Banham and the thermodynamic architectural approache of Philippe Rahm a standrad living package were produced by follwing the recommended dimensions of each space and appliance from the book Arkitektens handbook.











Paradigm shift

Through a thermodynamic lens, the project follows the paradigm shift in architectural practice, emphasizing performance over form and the unseen meteorological influences within the built environment.  
























Figure: Convective apartments
A building as a convective shape




















Radical Domesticity-
Dwelling Type.


Inspired from both Philippe Rahm architects ´ methodology and Reyner Banhams  critiques.