Slice, Dust, Polish Andrea Milovanovic Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew
Discerning the residues of the social construct of a housewife, this project zooms into the suburban house as a type that has reinforced it around a century ago. Fencing a household from the public sphere and domestic from the political economy. It observes a recent trend of introducing a butler’s pantry as an addition to the open plan living as proof that even the market has identified those residues. Combating them with what it knows best - a new room with its own designated function. Since you’re struggling to satisfactorily maintain your open plan kitchen, we’ll provide you with one more - one where you can freely prepare the food and hide your mess away. Surprise, surprise, eventually you’ll have to clean that one too. And that’s not even the only one of the extra rooms you ought to tend to. Recognising the disjunction between the excess of space and our ability to use it, the project takes those display rooms along with housework’s main sources (laundry and kitchen) away from the house into the communal, in-between areas, highly encouraging their use instead of treating them like porcelain for guests that never come. It reshuffles the remaining footprint of the dual occupancy into multiple units whilst maintaining the illusion of both the dream and its solidity. Moreover, it does not see architecture as exceptional, but as entangled in many other forms of cultural production - thus it still operates within the bounds of the system those houses are ingrained in. Click here for website
Peter Corrigan Medal Semester 1, 2020 Supervisor Statement Andrea identifies within contemporary feminist art and theory, gendered domesticity as provocation and agent for the exploration of the production and consumption of housing. In these studies property is cleaned and maintained in a permanent state of the real estate brochure, no longer houses and homes but a tradable financial instrument. Her project seeks to occupy the disconnect between the discourse of liveability (The Future Homes Competition 2020) and that of the housing market. Andrea’s project acknowledges an excess in real estate, the multiple near identical feature rooms, Dining/Meals/ alfresco Living /Theatre Lounge/Kitchen/Kitchenette outdoor and a mismatch between the 2.1 occupants and the three and four bedrooms of the average home. Andrea proposes a radical and humorous redistribution of spaces, subtle and cleverly within the brief of the 2020 Victorian Governments Future Homes Competition appropriating the found spaces of the advertised homes as the feature space for eight separate dwellings. There is a provocation in the extent that Andrea is able to mount a critique in the form of a radical redistribution of what is contained within the current project home, accepting planning and building codes, construction technology and delivery and institutional finance she is able to propose a four-fold increase to the density of the site. _Dr. Peter Brew