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Negotiating the modern cross-class āmodel homeā:domestic experiences in Basil Spenceās Claremont Court
This article investigates the spatial articulation of architecture and home through the exploration of current domestic experiences in Basil Spenceās Claremont Court housing scheme (1959-1962), Edinburgh. How architecture and home are both idealized and lived is the backdrop for a discussion that draws on the concept of āmodel home,ā or physical representation of a domestic ideal. The article reads Claremont Court as an architectural prototype of the modern domestic ideal, before exploring its reception by five of its households through the use of visual methods and semistructured interviews. Receiving the model home involves negotiating between ideal and lived homes. Building on this idea, the article contributes with a focus on the spatiality of such reception, showing how it is modulated according to the architectural affordances that the āmodel homeā represents. The article expands on scholarship on architecture and home with empirical evidence that argues the reciprocal spatiality of home