The Instant Home Kit
Design Practices: Interior Design, Experiences Design, Product Design



Adolph Loos’ “Ornament and crime” argues that designers and architects focus predominantly on function. From this starting point I explored a contemporary understanding of ornament and found out that ornament can reveal human desires, activities and beliefs. It enlightens imagination, and in this sense it is identified as narrative.

By asking why people need to decorate, and why minimalism and raw functionalism did not work, I realised that users need to feel attached to their culture; this is especially the case with Urban Nomads, a contemporary lifestyle group known for living out of a suitcase.

My project became the “instant home kit”, a transportable and customisable structure that acts as a "home reminder" with a wide range of functions. The kit can transform a house into a home carrying stories and memories. The concept of ornament I propose emerges from the various narratives of home.

I developed a structure based on certain principles of ornamentation such as tiling and symmetry. The basic shape of the flexible structure is a triangle - structurally stable, allowing various other shapes to be easily assembled from it. The users customise this kit with a layer of their own stories of home, created by downloading or uploading images from the specially designed website.

Key Collaborators:
Angelica Lienhart, Mimi Katherein, (concept development), Callum Lumsden, Jean Sebastien Pagnon, Arnaud Desjardins (copy editing).









Contact:
Leo Sentou
07772179128
leo_sentou@hotmail.com