Residential architecture is a type of architecture that has the greatest impact on every person. We usually see it when we look through the window of our apartment, when we go to work, but then we walk down the street. We spend most of our time there. Apartments, whatever they are, are our safe haven. It's not monumental like the church we admire, it doesn't have historically important artifacts like in magnificent museums, but those "4 walls" are more important to us than any other building. This is because they satisfy our primary need for shelter, and in this shelter we satisfy other primary needs: food, drink and sleep.
For a good reason, the design of residential architecture is the biggest challenge for every architect. The quality scale is set high - namely, all our colleagues feel the importance of this architecture, have the most experience with it and are therefore the most critical of it. This is not the only reason for its mention for architects, as we have a professional code, unfinished and with several dreams - that we will do good with architecture, fight against injustice and defend human rights. The global crisis of housing availability is a problem that architects feel obliged to influence, because with our ability to physically shape space, we have a responsibility to the interests of people, which we put before the interests of politics and capitalism.
As a young person who, in that period, wants to create a space that her children will call home, I had no doubts about the topic I want to deal with in my master's thesis. With such ideals, I ventured into fantasizing about my own vision of a solution, or in an attempt to solve the problem in question.
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