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Item Restricted Adaptive Furniture Design Strategies : Beyond Pure Space Efficiency(2021) Popova, Anastasia; Martín, Javier; Larsen, Sigurd; Interior DesignMACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : Living spaces are the dominant part of our lives. Taking into account recent adjustments that COVID-19 has brought into our lives, we now spend up to 69% of our day at home (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2020). Home has become our place of work, place of meeting, relaxation, and a hobby studio. However, the availability of those living spaces has not increased. Quite the opposite - the world is suffering from a housing affordability crisis for at least a decade now and it's only getting worse (Galster and Lee 2020). According to the journal article by George Galstera, rising housing prices are correlated with limited space availability in the urban scape. This is a major point that brings designers to several solutions - first, the most common one is to build outwards. This solution causes inconvenience due to being too far from the place of work. The second one - adapting to the existing spaces that may have not been used for living before, often irregular or small. This approach is frequently referred to as more sustainable and space-conscious (Salazar and Aspizua Sáez 2014). As we now combine our dominant life indoors and limited space availability, we understand that the main tool we are left with is design. In order to create spaces that are cozy and welcoming but yet small, they need to be adaptable to our needs. Adaptable to our varying lifestyle, family sizes, priorities, and daily activities. Elements like furniture, in this case, form the level of transformability of our homesItem Restricted Choreography of transitional space : architectural design beyond functionality(2020) Janßen, Lena Maria; Larsen, Sigurd; Schroeder, Süheyla; bachelor thesis in Interior Design"[T]he expression of the built space needs to be designed with regard to the way we perceive it, that is the possible movements and activities we perform inside of it. Taking on the embodied perspective of a dancer or choreographer, thinking through the body, can open new pathways and spatial possibilities that might not otherwise be accessible to an architect, but play a crucial role in creating the mental experience a space affords us. The importance of choreographed movements is most directly illustrated within transitional spaces that serve to direct, guide and facilitate motion. Transitional spaces guide us from one spatial realm to another; both physically and mentally. They live in the sequence of what lies in the past, present, and future. This means: transitional spaces also live in the expectation of what is to come. They always seem to be inflected toward something more important beyond itself (Boettger 2014). Therefore they play an important in role in any meaning we associate with an architectural structure. [...] the purpose of this study is to explore how architects can take cues from choreography to create transitional spaces beyond functionality. It illustrates the relevance of choreography to our built environment and identifies how architectural space enacts and transforms meaning in order to transcend its function. [...] The first part of this paper draws on existing theories and methods in order to establish a theoretical framework for exploring the architectural tools of choreography that create meaning in transitional spaces. It defines transitional space, choreography and meaning as the key concepts of this research and clarifies the relationship among them. In doing so, it points out why choreography is relevant to our built environment and especially to the architectural design of transitional spaces. Furthermore, it demonstrates how architectural choreography creates movement sequences and offers insights into the ways that these build up to a meaningful spatial experience. The second part of this thesis continues by following a case-study approach, performing an in-depth analysis of four different transitional spaces with regard to their lines of movement. All were selected as case studies on the basis of their differing architectural typology and perceptual conditions. The analysis examines how the tools of architectural choreography contribute to meaning creation both within different contexts and on a practical level. After carrying out a comparative analysis that illustrates similarities and differences between the project sites, this paper concludes by presenting its overall findings. It outlines the potential possibilities and limits of choreography as a tool to create architectural design beyond functionality."