Evoking Subconcious Experience

The relationship between architecture and human consciousness is deeply intertwined, with spaces having the ability to evoke subconscious experiences. Reimagining the filmic collage techniques employed in Un Chien Andalou within architectural design offers an intriguing avenue for exploring how space, time, and movement can be manipulated to create experiences that challenge our perception of reality. Along with contemporary surrealist techniques such as cut-up narrative structure, and motion picture scenography, the Old School Building gives space to a new performance set up maintaining the spatial characteristics of the original building, but with visual disorientations and spatial inconsistencies, evoking a sense of timelessness and perpetual flux.

Visual and Spatial Metaphors. Cataloguing all the existing thresholds and architectural elements of the existing building and displaying them through (similar) colour, dimensions, geometries, materiality, texture,...

Metamorphosis of Space and Time. Working with an old building is about preservation, and an act of continual metamorphosis: history, space and light converge into a unified and evolving experience.

The design embodies an architectural collage of juxtaposed memories and recycled imagery. These elements create an immersive, cinematic experience with dramatic lighting and jagged shadows, reminiscent of a silent film.

Disintegration of the Domestic Realm...Old photographs of architectural components, such as staircases, balustrades, window frames, and doors, are digitally manipulated and reproduced, translating memory into the physical structure.

Old and new are intertwined to create a wholistic gesamtkunstwerk. The metamorphosis extends the past: as the architecture becomes a living process, in the midst of becoming.