ABSTRACT
Situated in three shared spaces of the Singaporean public housing block—the common corridor, the stairwell, and the ground level void deck—Anarchiving Public Housing reimagines this housing typology as a densely woven tapestry of occupants, their spaces and their domesticities. Extrapolated from events recorded in local news and popular fiction, the drawing makes visible individual desires and tactics, documented in both sanctioned and illicit domestic practices. Encountering architecture in-between actions of domesticity, the collage-axonometric shows the high-rise block distorted in scale to accommodate the fine-grained experiences of everyday life. Positioned in-between the genres of an infographic and a graphic novel, the drawing visualises the influence of sub-spaces and stories produced through spontaneous domestic action and exuberant imagination. Domesticity nests, appropriates, and/or alters the repetitive geometries of mass housing.
