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Architecture studio
led by Sasha Topolnytska
in New York City
2020 - Ongoing
A child's arrival transforms the domestic environment. New furniture, objects, and infrastructure are introduced to accommodate a new occupant's needs, while existing rooms, routines, and spatial relationships are reorganized.
Yet the transformation of the parent, particularly the person who gives birth, rarely receives an equivalent set of spatial provisions. Conventional representations of the home often leave changes in bodily experience, sensory thresholds, attention, privacy, and personal autonomy invisible.
Emerging from my experience of becoming a parent, this research began as Farmmm, a collection of inclusive sensory objects, an investigation into inclusive design that could support changing relationships between bodies and domestic space.
The project now expands into a broader inquiry into parental urbanism at the apartment scale: the home as a negotiated environment of territories, infrastructures, movements, dependencies, and competing spatial needs.
Through situated observation, architectural mapping, and speculative design, the research asks how existing domestic environments accommodate change, whose needs become spatially visible, and how objects and interiors might support caregivers' autonomy without defining them solely by their caregiving roles.
More to come...