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Watercolor, acrylic paint, oil pastel,
ink on paper, 2550x1500mm
Ink.on tracing papers, 240x310mm
Lightbox, 1372x442, 1372x642mm
Between Lines and Lives 2025
Between Lines and Lives is a spatial research and design project by June Park and Veronique Horsch that investigates how everyday life inhabits, negotiates, and reshapes rigid urban grids. Through mappings, observations, and diagrammatic translations in Schiemond, the project reveals how personal presence, movement, and appropriation subtly stretch structures of control. By visualizing the tension between spatial governance and lived experience, it foregrounds human agency within systems designed for order.
“When is the grid followed, and
when is it shifted? Where do different layers of
structure overlap or conflict?”
DEPARTMENT 1
DEPARTMENT 2
DEPARTMENT 3
PROCESS
Our project began with a strong sense of control that we experienced in
Schiemond, expressed through the
binary opposites of rigorous and disobedient. This tension became the
starting point of our investigation.
During our first site visits, we traced
street surfaces using tracing paper
and charcoal. We focused on areas
that clearly expressed a strict grid
and structural order, as well as moments where this order was loosened
or disrupted. These tracings formed a long continuous roll, reading as a section through Schiemond.
From this process, the section became a key rule of our project. We developed multiple sections of Schiemond, each revealing a different reality and a different relationship between order and deviation.
Architecturally, the housing follows a
strict raster. Socially, the grid appears through unwritten rules and
patterns of behavior that people either follow or resist. The grid functions
as a framework rather than a prescription: it can be maintained, adapted, or challenged.
The ways residents modify this grid
through additions, removals, or informal uses reflect their needs, values,
and lived experiences. The grid is therefore both visible and invisible, revealing the relationship between built
form and everyday life.
Departments
To structure our work, we divided
each step of data collection and
analysis into departments.
Department 1 — Observation
At each location, we paused to observe and record what we saw and
heard. The notes remained purely descriptive, avoiding interpretation.
Department 2 — Transformation
In this phase, we transformed the observations into structured data. Subjective impressions were abstracted
into numbers and diagrams, translating lived experience into a system.
Department 3 — Correlations
In the final step, we brought all abstractions together to examine how
they relate to one another. We asked
where different layers correlate,
where they collide or contradict
each other, and where gaps appear
within the grid.
Observations
1) Typology/usage of buildings
2) Personal items on balconies
3) Personal traces in front of houses
4) Movement
5) Interactions
6) Emotions
Research Methods & Design Process
Booklet <Between Lines and Lives> 2025
Design by June Park, Veronique Horsh
Rib Gallery, Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490B, Rotterdam
Master Interior Architecture:Research+Design, Pietzwart Institute