As a designer, I constantly question the spaces around me, their purpose, and their structures. My practice revolves around the personalized and intimate aspects of architecture, examining the role of science and the dynamic future in design.
Looking into the near future, my final project explores the human need for codependency and symbiotic relationships between plants and humans, as a way to heal, recover and revitalize the body from the violence and control of the hormone medication industry. By advancing the connections between humans and life around us, Dong Quai will perform as a healing hormone shower space, and allow women authority over their own bodies.
Healing
Heavy, slow breathing. Fatigue and stress from the hectic week weigh you down. In the shower, dim the lights, and from in between the plants, water drips down, cleansing, healing, and soothing. A fine vapor drifted in the space, glass fogging up. Your skin, is moist, absorbing the hormone in the air. You feel powerful. Strong. Healthy.
Dong Quai
A small shower space, in your bathroom. Feeling down? Step in, heal, recover, and take your health into your own hands.
The Cycle
The plants need you. And you need the plants. Your health is dependent on one another.
Technical Drawings
Symbiotic Relationships
From root to flower, sexual hormones are customized to your body. Health is not a ‘one size fits all. You are known, understood, and acknowledged for your differences. The Dong Quai does not discriminate against women's health.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
