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Back Home
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Students were asked to return to their homes—not only as structures, but also as memories. They explored the subtle layers embedded in their living spaces through inhabitation and daily life. The task was to identify forms and signs of home that quietly shape existence.

The project has two-parts:

From Home

Physical Home – The anatomy of their living environment: tectonic structure, details, historical layers. The home is read as a body, with its own arrangement, weight, and history.

Mental Home – The emotional landscape: memories, imagination, childhood episodes, and spatial consciousness. Rooms are not dimensions or functions, but resonant chambers of experience.

What transforms ordinary space into the sacred? By breaking the connection with a specific time, students search for enduring values within their homes. In this way, their works become self-referential, based on internal experience. Memory fragments discovered through physical and phenomenological research coalesce into reconstructed images. The material becomes a kind of motivation, to be shared with others.

To Home

One student’s archived material, a spatial portrait, is given to another. The second student constructs a reimagined model of the first student’s home.

The process becomes a path of double cognition. The student who explores his own home learns to see and express his own inner space. And the one who creates the idea of a new home based on this research explores the inner world of the other—a spatial sensitivity and perception. The person’s inner home continues to exist in the imagination of others—albeit in a new form, in new materials.

The works presented in this exhibition are not just building projects. They are attempts at a homecoming—an attempt to understand how spaces live within a person and how a person continues to rebuild it, even when they leave their physical house behind.

Faculty
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@david.giorgadze.architects

model photos @v.o.g.l.e.r
installation photos @sandrosulaberidze__