The rise of immaterial production — amplified by digital technology — is erasing the line between living and working, studying, or learning. What matters now is performance itself. It grows through sustained practice and gives people the tools to go deeper into knowledge and to claim opportunity. Periods of chosen solitude and pause, used to re-locate the self within society, become core responsibilities toward past, present, and future. The room is where the body tends to the mind as the mind tends to the body. As Roland Barthes notes in How to Live Together, the room stages the essence of interiority. In this light, a student residence — made mainly of individual rooms — offers an ideal meeting of space and time.

The project aims to provide a protected, quietly creative setting from which users can pursue their goals. It begins with the private realm as the basic cell, places it at the centre, and then, through spatial cues, invites a gradual widening of social contact into larger groups. This back-and-forth between the individual and the collective keeps the person informed by society — and society enriched by the person. In doing so, the space makes a minimal, deliberate contribution to shaping the people who will, in practice, shape the future.