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At first I thought about human contradiction between open-mindedness and closed-mindedness and wanted to represent this philosophy in the space.
I thought open-mindedness is important, because I am studying art, which needs imagination and relaxation. Air is most the important thing in space for me. I set the air space as positive. My main concept is positive and negative, the positive being open-mindedness and the negative is closed -mindedness.

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   This space is used by an artist student. It has a studio which is positive space. The student recreates this space, and each room is changed by each student’s characteristics, and this apartment’s
living room is studio so art becomes part of life. For example: if a painter lives here, that person can draw here, and if a sculptor lives here, that person can do sculpture every day, and if a graffiti artist
lives here, that person can draw graffiti on the walls. And if they want
to hold an individual show they can do it.
  And the negative space has utilities and deskwork space, which need human ergonomics very much. Because I wanted to make space small, I followed human ergonomics by measuring my own body.
My purpose was to make flexible space, and my fundamental idea was simple: the shape and the materials were inspired by a Greek row of houses
along the street .		 MOE 1