Dormitory as Home: A Temporary Room and the System of Comfort

This book started from my curiosity about the comfortable feeling that I had while living in a temporary room with shared kitchen and bathroom facilities in Amsterdam. During the two years that I have lived in Amsterdam, I have moved three times. Each time it was the same type of room with shared facilities. This raised questions for me: what made those temporary rooms comfortable? How fast could I adapt to those new places? In my work I explore those questions further, taking other people¿s situations into account. It is an investigation about comfort in small-scale temporary habitations, in which I study how one inhabits one¿s private sphere under the condition of temporality and comforts oneself in an un-familiarised space.