Projects - Architecture
URBAN INTERIORITY
PROJECT NAME:
Physical vs. Implied Boundaries
LOCATION:
Vaticana, Rome
TUTORS:
Nathalie Rozencwajg, Michel Da Costa Goncalves
DESCRIPTION
Passetto di Borgo is the corridor atop the old Vatican wall between St. Peter's and Castelo di San Angelo. It has socio-political issues as the ground belongs to Italy but the top passageway belongs to Vatican, and it was used as an escape route for the popes. Through installing a glazed structure on the wall, I want to create a new link between the residential buildings on the Vatican side and the intersections of the wall and achieve controlled permeability...
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URBAN INTERIORITY
PROJECT NAME:
“IDEAL” Urban Room
LOCATION:
London
TUTORS:
Nathalie Rozencwajg, Michel Da Costa Goncalves
DESCRIPTION
“Soane...contrived vistas from his interiors, only he was not content with the alignment of doors. He also layered space, so that the eye was no longer constrained into a telescopic recession of portals and could wander wide, up, across and through from one place to another... when characteristically Sonian vistas occurred, they did so most often in circulation space or out of the windows, not in occupied space.”
-Robin Evans
Urban/Interior Labyrinth
PROJECT NAME:
Blurring Boundaries
LOCATION:
Paris
TUTORS:
Nathalie Rozencwajg, Michel Da Costa Goncalves
DESCRIPTION
Spatial perceptions are experienced through urban/interior corridor paths from one scene to the next. These rapidly evolving experiences blur the distinction between the urban and the interior. The “urban room” becomes the domain of the inhabitant’s activity. Irrelevant of time, adjacency and scale - the room and its basic elements fold outwards to expand and reconnect the experiences of the inhabitant.
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Spatial Reverse Engineering
PROJECT NAME:
Escher’s Relativity
LOCATION:
N/A
TUTORS:
Nathalie Rozencwajg, Michel Da Costa Goncalves
DESCRIPTION
"The illusion that an artist wishes to create is much more subjective and far more important than the objective, physical means with which he tries to create it." - Escher
The project examines the domestic, public and private spaces that we inhabit and our perception of the boundaries, these spaces represent and impose. I explored Escher’s “Relativity” drawing as a...
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