Reading Rooms

Reading Rooms are a series of sketches that explore learning, intimacy, and communication within domestic space.

Rather than resolved designs, they act as fragments — studies of atmosphere, partition, and ritual — where the reading room is treated as both a spatial construct and a communicative apparatus. In Communicology, Vilém Flusser describes communication as networks of codes and practices that organise social life. Seen through this lens, the reading room becomes more than an interior: it is a medium for learning, where knowledge is structured by the protocols of space and use.

Questioning Domesticity

Reading Rooms unsettles the idea of home as a stable interior. Drawing on Gae Aulenti’s 1972 MoMA exhibition The New Domestic Landscape, the project treats domestic space as a site of experimentation and negotiation. The reading room is reframed not as a quiet refuge but as a laboratory for learning, where study and intimacy are bound to histories of exclusion and cultural practice.

Prelude to Conversion

As a prelude to Maury Road: A Learning Interior, these sketches test how interiors might host learning as an ongoing, spatialised practice. They are not finished proposals, but wandering studies — wondering aloud how books, rooms, and rituals embed cultural protocols and sustain pedagogy.

Toward Communicative Interiors

Reading Rooms positions learning as a communicative act, mediated through books and space. These sketches imagine interiors as communicative infrastructures, where memory, intimacy, and imagination are spatialised — not to produce final answers, but to sustain the unfinished work of learning.