My house: A Vessel

In this blog I will be seeing my house as a collection of vessels. Different vessels have different meanings to me. So this blog will be more visual than writing up.

1. Above attached picture represents one of the rooms in my house that I showed there as ‘The Fancy Palace’ because of my emotions attached to that place. This space is the main space which connects mostly all the vessels in my house. I used the term ‘delicate’ for this place as it has been accessorized with wall paintings, wall clocks made up of glass, few Buddha statues made out of poly-resin and marble. The materials used here are delicate and brittle like the glass, marble. They might broke off in one fall, so as a kid I had experienced limitations in this place.

Above I represented ‘The Fancy Palace’ in a plan that is a top view with mostly all the furniture. This is just to better understand the vessel and for viewers to get a sense of emotions linked to that vessel.

2. The second vessel is called ‘The Organised Place’, which is basically a representation of my parents bedroom.

I have above shown a plan of my parents bedroom with mostly all the furniture, I have excluded the wall paintings in the room. These things are temporarily fixed and keeps on changing their places from time to time.

3. ‘My World’ which is my place, my room, thus I termed it as My World. This place is very personal to me, as your bedroom is to you. The interesting part is that my room is very flexible in terms of the functionality of it. It is sometimes a room for studying, a room for sleeping, a room for spillovers, a room for movie nights, a room for recording(music production) and a room for sleeping for sure.

Above is the representation of my room, it is a small squared room with two cupboards embedded in the wall, a huge shelf and a double bed with attached washroom. This room too has windows in south direction but doesn’t has any door facing the east. The place is not brightened up with light as the organised place yet it isn’t that dark too. The term dark here shows, how I perceive it as dark.

4. Talking about the storage space, home of different objects which stores all the used and unused objects is a narrow rectangular space with more than 11 feets of ceiling height.

Above picture shows the plan, where at the top right corner with a criss-cross pattern represents a wooden cupboard.

5. By Food Palace, I meant the kitchen of my house. Below are the emotions or activities attached to it are mapped.

6. Dreamland is a representation of the washroom attached to my bedroom. As you can see the mapping, the place is refreshing, relaxing, it is a place for my dreams that is my personal thought on it.

This is the plan for it, and which includes mainly all the fixtures in a bathroom and a washroom. There is a basin at the top left corner, there are some taps, shower in the middle and a commode seat at the right. The curvy line that is acting as a partition for bathing space and toilet space. The curvy line basically is a translucent waterproof curtains.

This was a really interesting assignment for me as I never knew the emotions in different vessels would be so different from each other. The best part is I could put my different and various emotions into words. This is how spaces are managed, people feel for them differently without themselves knowing it sometimes. I got to learn about my own house and about the proportions of my house. I have a bunch of questions in my head right now and I am searching for their answers. Why is the ceiling height so high? more than 11 feets? Is the placement of rooms done according to Vastu? Why is there a column in my balcony? Is it only for aesthetics or some load bearing issue? So I’ll be working with these questions in my head, till then wait for my new blog!