EVERDOOR CLUSTER 2

The everdoor cluster, as a component of the Lemniscate Kitchen, tries to invert the restrictions of office architectural production to create an opportunity to propose alternative spatial configurations.

As in a prison, where architecture is not only the fence between the freedom and the imprisonment, but also a kind of device of psychological torture, in an office, architecture has the goal of, first, separating the spare time and the working time, and second, offering the best possible working environment. This ideal of the working environment is not established by the employee but usually it is planned by the employer and designed by the architect.

Among the key features of an office space, the control of the employees is always important. The office environment has to be as neutral as possible to avoid distractions. The aesthetic of repetitiveness is a subliminal message for the expected attitude of the employee. Then, the fixed and impersonal architecture of offices is a clear reflection of the capitalist economic system and its market logic.

This architectural feature is here used as an opportunity. Most of the office building corridors in the world have carpet on the floor, modular false ceiling and a long succession of doors, so if you are put suddenly in any of them, it will be almost impossible to know where you are, even in which continent of the earth. For, this strong similarity is used to create an "office space exchanger". It allows to pass from any office space to another, inside the fiction of the narrative, in the content of the encoded letter that Nora, the character, drawn to her imprisoned father. This feature is a critical point about the rigidity of contemporary office space. If you can use this kitchen to get into any office space in the world, you are offered with a new freedom, but if all of them are so similar that even you do not notice almost any difference, this freedom does not matter, so, in this case it seems proper to use the famous statement of Sartre: "you are condemned to be free"