Explanation of my Rooms

"Upon a watchtower, sits a housewife: who with letters from abroad hopes and waits to welcome the author; her husband, home"

Following the narrative of the housewife awaiting her husband, I chose to build a watchtower, as a place where she can look out for him. At the top, you could imagine the scene of Vermeer's painting existing, where this top room is her provate sanctuary, for her to read the letters she recieves, store her belongings, and hold the relics that remind her of her husband. With a downwards curving arch, her view out the window is forced down rather than up, which refelcts her desire to view onto the road for her husband. Below is a open roof top courtyard, where she could sit and wait for him, exposed to the elements she could hear and see him or possibly the postman to arrive. On the otherside is the entry point to the glass tube below, which acts partly as a light tunnel, but on the courtyard it acts as a 'wishing well', symbolising her desire/wishing he'd return. Then below inside the main room, a small space exists for her to sit in more privacy, away from any suggestions of the lonely road where her husband would return.

The bottom half acts much more as a welcoming point for her husband. The cathedral liek triangular would first welcome him there, in a grand gesture. THey would move through this enclosed point to a smaller point which would then open up to the main room, where they would be met wiht a burst of light, and a welcoming glass mounument. Then they'd proceed up the stairs, in a ritual that would begin witha space to dine. This then could proceed to that private small space, where the couple could sit together and converse, and catch-up. However this space could be bi-passed and they could return to the open courtyard, and therefore return to their own lives together, in the openness of the public. Thus here more activites could occur; including reading/writing/eating/create workings/relaxing. THe top room would remain as the lady's personal space, where husband would not enter.