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The dream house, desires | aspirations | experiences | visions

Screens and Projections
Sneha Pawar, 2020


A home of our own is something that everyone aspires to have one day, a house of our dreams. We all have an idea of it which we imagine, how it should be, where it should be and we work towards achieving that. How do we construct this idea of a dream house? What is it for us? Where does this idea come from? There is a perception of a dream house that is alluded to ownership, a house with a front yard, a backyard, a house close to the sea, with a garden/balcony. Is then the idea of a dream house so monotonous, where every single person consolidates the same idea of a house.

This study revolves around the development and the architectural practices associated with it, aspirations, and dreams of people in the small town of Malegaon in Maharashtra. Life practices and routines of people here become instrumental while conceptualizing the idea of a home. However, the recent development in the housing sector mimics the larger practice of housing as seen in major metro cities like Mumbai, the apartment type. With the notions, beliefs, and aspirations of people here being so diverse, I think it's unfair to impose them with a certain type of housing where this concept of living is still new, finite, and not necessary considering the opportunities. 

To explore this notion further I decided to look at what people actually dream of, look at their inner selves, what they actually desire, which happens when they sleep. I looked at nine cases of people living across different class groups and did a detailed interview asking them about their dreams and true them as they spoke about them.

The dream space which they spoke about was different from what their aspirations were. The term dream house which people generally talk about seems to be emerging from the aspirations put together through economic consumptions. However, the actual dreams which are about their desires, strokes, anxieties appear to be absurd, vague, and scaleless. What they spoke about is an aspiration, not the dream because our dreams are the work of our subconscious and they are very intuitive. It is an intense act of reconciliation of all our thoughts, actions, and memories which then reflect back on us. Our dream house/space is something we actually dream of, which is constructed through our thoughts, memories, experiences, fears, and desires.

We from the very beginning inculcate this whimsical idea of an ideal or a luxurious house to be into the greens or into the mountains which we consider to be our dream house. Also because the notion of that place is as such that it should provide us peace, calm, and comfort. But in the hustle, we forget about the other dimension of space that could exist, our dreams. This thesis aims to explore that space of dreams which is different and beyond reality and to bring out the spatiality of the dreams in the real world.


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Affordances of screens between and desire in suburban streets

Screens and Projections
Anshuli Kadam, 2020

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Cinema space

Screens and Projections
Arkdev Bhattacharyya, 2022

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