By residing 24 hours in the exhibition space In Vitro of the Academy of Fine Arts at Eeklo, Belgium, an empirical research was done on how the human body relates to a new space. How does the feeling of connection develop, the feeling of trust between body and space?
The exhibition space In Vitro is surrounded by glass walls and has a direct contact with the street. The residing was exposed to passers-by for 24 hours. The glass windows were used as a board for thoughts and experiences within these 24 hours. The more got written on the glass, the less transparent the glass walls became. Slowly the resident defined the space.
After the 24 hours the residence space became an exhibition space again and visitors could reconstruct the 24 hours by reading the thoughts and experiences on the glass walls and seeing the tracks the resident of 24 hours left.
2oo3, Eeklo, Belgium
With the project House FDU'sel, David Dooghe graduated as an interior designer at the Academy of Fine Arts at Eeklo, Belgium.
At the academy David did several projects such as the performance and exhibition: Loft For Rent, the design of chair Tria, Shelter: the design for the 3 bunkers and the design for the House FDU’sel.
House FDU’sel combines the different scales of landscape, architecture and interior in an integrant design. The jury liked this integration of the surrounding nature in the architecture and interior design. Although there are strict regulations on the maximum surface that can be built, the house is spatial, by the efficient use of the space and the use of height and light.
David’s studio mentor was Wouter Cornillie.
David Dooghe chose to study interior design parallel to his study architecture to get more in touch with the scale of the human body.
