Portable Home — seungeonnnnn

Portable Home, 2026

What if I could bring and carry my home with me, and put it in a new house I moved into? Then, that portable home would help me to get grounded in the new house.

As spatial distance in the contemporary world is compressed and the spaces become indistinct by mass-production, housing spaces are rarely perceived as a true home. The traditional sense of home as a reflection of identity is being lost. The project aims to conceive a bookcase as a small space that expresses a new conception of home. I position the bookcase as mere furniture but as a small architectural space within architecture (houses).

I aim to create a bookcase that can become a portable small home and compensate for the unfamiliarity of indistinct houses. The practice presents how the bookcase can be realized as a portable home through a tactile material and symbolic form.

The project “Portable Home” creates a tactile medium for identity by conceptualizing the bookcase as a symbolic small-scale home. This intervention allows the individual to transport their personal history into the anonymous houses.

The finalized bookcase is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled like modular toys for the convenience of transport as a portable home.

Grenen KD OS (Pine Wood)
27 (W) x 33 (D) x 134 (H) cm

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