Condensing space
I love making architectural models. I feel like the only way I can think logically, but also imaginatively, about space and atmosphere, is to condense it on a smaller scale.
I'd love to make model reconstructions of all of the memorable spaces I've inhabited, as I imagine them in my head: my bedroom, childhood house, the classrooms where I'd have philosophy and art classes in high school, bookshops, cinemas, the inside of an airplane going to London. Enclosed spaces of solitude and daydream... where I've dreamt of the external world and where I've been most creative. I like the thought that the models would condense and contain all of the feelings and thoughts experienced within these dream spaces.
This a W.I.P model for a current design project: a continuous undulating roof and opaque curved walls form a corridor and guide linear movement out into the landscape. It's a space that's intended to act as a corridor to access inspiration and connection for those living within the oppressive and capital-driven confines of a suburban housing development.
