Student Constellation: Reclaiming Privatized Consumption Spaces As Round-the-clock Commons

Roxane Sophie Heard

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Naomi Mikael

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Romain Sassine

Dining infrastructure is not neutral. It is spatial control disguised as convenience. Organized around efficiency, dining halls reduce students to consumers. By reclaiming these spaces, we imagine them as a student constellation: qualitative places to eat, cook, study, gather, and party across campus, organized by a ritualized time schedule.The project develops a toolkit of juridical instruments, punctual architectural interventions, modular dispositifs, and lighter objects that translate practical needs and collective desires into a powerful aesthetic of belonging.

Team
Unit:
RIOT
Teachers:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistants:
Elif Erez Henderson, Antoine Iweins D'Eeckhoutte
Infos
Year:
2026
Period:
Y3 (BA), Y1 (MA), Y2 (MA), Spring
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Society, Structure
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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