Sean Yeo

Due to the pandemic, working from home has become a common situation for most of us. It is also an opportunity to explore how working from home gives creatives an option to avoid going further from home to find affordable workspaces. Yet with this opportunity also comes this issue where in this closed cycle of working from home, the variety of every single day cannot be fully experienced.

The Creative Studio houses the solution and process of taking two main types of residential waste and transforming them into usable products. It is also a showroom of how these creatives both produce and live with the products of their own creation, and an example of how recycling can be an interesting and active part of the community. To create more ‘life’ within the closed cycle of working from home, the space is adaptable and flexible, utilising elements such as veils and breeze blocks to allow the creative couple to create their living and working spaces on a daily basis. It is through this act of re-arranging and refreshing our environment that will stimulate creativity in an otherwise static space, and allow us to sit, work and create differently every single day.

Expanding on this idea of cycles, my Creative House is guided by a series of closed cycles, meant to inform and support each other. Working and living, within the idea of the home. The creatives and the community, bonded through the act of recycling residential waste. Finally, four key ideas which guide the architectural qualities and lifestyle of the creative house, live, live lightly, live amongst, and leave behind, complete the Creative House.

The four key ideas of living are important, because in a way, recycling is a necessary and important process, but it is a solution to the problems of our current way of life. The creative house can also be an opportunity to instigate new ways of living as a way of prevention. Prevention is motivated by awareness, and awareness is only gained through exposure. I believe that with new ways of living, encouraged by living spaces amongst nature, we feel less detached from the idea of recycling and sustainability as a whole because we want to protect the nature that we enjoy and live with on a daily basis, and which has become a key part of our living experience.