The lack of furniture and human inhabitants conveyed a sense of loss either mentally or physically to the person who once occupied this space.
This emptiness could be symbolic of someone dying who had decided to give up on life.. believing there was no point continuing on with the norm if they are just going to die. I then furthered this idea by considering the person may decided to leave their familiar settings to just sit and wait or even escape.
This brought me to the sentence: An underground chamber for a young man to sit while waiting on his impending death
The idea of the sun being the only inhabitant in Edward Hoppers painting sun in an empty room, led me to the notion that although the dying man 'escaped' from the world and is 'waiting' on death, he will never be able to escape from the earth to which he is bound to as life and death is a continuous cycle. When you die, you become part of the earth. This idea is conveyed in my design through the roots of the tree which penetrate into the young mans underground chamber. The windows are positioned so that when the sun rises in the east and sets in the west light will enter this dark space. The young mans chair is positioned in line with the east facing window, meaning that every time the sun rises he cant escape from the light.
The perspex wall separating the underground chamber and the domestic space is symbolic of the mental barrier in which the dying man has created against the outside world.
