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The Twoday Room: Interrelated Temporalities on Northey Island

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Student Oliver Hay
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Unit PG15
Year 5

During a time when the world is under a global lockdown, the only interactions with other time zones and locations is online via a two dimensional screen. This project proposes a mode of dwelling that allows the inhabitant to register parallel temporalities from around the planet, whilst reinforcing an awareness of their own presence at a precise point on the surface of the Earth.


'The Twoday Room' sits at the centre point of Northey Island, an uninhabited and isolated island in the estuary of the Blackwater River in Essex.


Scattered around the Island’s flat landscape are a series of interventions and objects with controlled vistas back towards the room. The framing of views towards the room from afar, and from within the room to the landscape allows for a controlled disorientation of place and time. The room is reframed from alternate time zones and parallel realities.


In this sense the room can exist in multiple time zones simultaneously, registering a scale that is typically incomprehensible at the scale of a human dwelling.

Temporal Island

Drawings showing the orientation and disorientation of Northey Island in addition to the interrelating modes of temporality on the island, as documented in March 2020.

Circumnavigating the Room

Multiple perspectives along a quarter circle turn. From the outside looking in and from the inside looking out. How much of something needs to be there for one to think it is all there?

Taxonomy of Microcosm Furniture

The collection is a kinetic assortment of furniture. Through their form and movement, the furniture embodies the same temporal patterns and phenomena that operate on a planetary scale.

Dwelling

Parallel projections of the circular dwelling at the centre of the island. The bird’s eye and worm’s eye viewpoints highlight the architectural elements and the bespoke furniture.

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