This project explores and reconstructs Las Vegas from an internet user’s point of view. A point of view that is constantly confronted with millions of points of views every time it scrolls on its screens. The re-initialization of Las Vegas started with collecting existing footage of the city on the internet, from Sarah Morris’s AM/PM […]

The Finestra Aperta project attempts to navigate and reveal to an audience the understandings of a new landscape through showing our crooked and anxious world by way of the disconnection and agitation of our realm. This project wants to be a public viewing machine for educating different views to people. Because a reality isn’t solely […]

It started with an interest for the neoclassicist and classicist architecture, as seen in different film references such as the scene including the Palace of Justice in Brussels in ‘Dossier B’, and later ‘The belly of an architect’. The classicist architecture is portrayed in a photographical way, which makes it grandeur to be noticed. The […]

Humans are the inventor of the machine. The machine is an asset to humans. As an operation for humans and operated by humans. Nowadays machines are becoming more and more self-controlling and humans become otiose. Machine learning is extant. Machines take in place. Do they need space? Architecture for machines? Architecture for no-body? What is […]

Like shining a light into darkness, the spaces that once were full, are now devoid of matter. Human has interfered and what is considered valuable is on the obvious trajectory to becoming, fulfilling its anthropocentric defined purpose. The human is egoistic so to say, leaving nothing to rest, always searching for more. If these spaces […]

New spaces are born in between the voids. A transparent landscape, stripped to its essentials, creates an atmosphere. The search for this multilayered experience came from the question: What exists behind the film footage? What is left unseen? Computer programs can analyze the footage it was fed and created what it thinks is situated behind […]

Humanity has found the key to terraforming planets. Unfortunately, at the cost of their own. Every lump of earth drained, every source depleted. A blanket of emptiness keeps the depreciated warm. The skyline is made of unwieldy monuments, remnants of a quest for a better world. More. More. More. The echo is still to be […]

A few images were striking, first of all, the fact that a navigator walks in space with a goal in mind, finding something. Searching and looking. I was primarily interested in le dossier B, a documentary where the protagonist is looking for a connection to a forbidden underground citadel. My interest grew further as I […]

The project explores imagined landscape and emerging from it – architecture of a tower. Tower which is a result of a desire to a moment of catch and search for a context of boundless nature. In this place it becomes difficult to define human scale and recognise the remains of architecture. Its speculation brought me […]

A newly written text based on fragments out of a text I wrote for SALON last semester, for it’s still relevant (meaning, we’re still in a lockdown-stage). While reading Alice in Wonderland, a pocket book by Lewis Carroll, I came across this fragment where Alice is falling through the rabbit hole and she’s thinking of […]

Different experiments were made over this semester. A combination of different focuses during several weeks leads us to the final drawing. It all started from a facade of a tower as reference of one of the movies from the list. How could I give interesting spaces to it? The work was based in “trial and […]

This project explores the notion of dream and reality which was rooted in the content of the situational site. This relational environment, which is composed of different film fragments, narrates a lived story, the story of a perpetual journey between consciousness and conception. Architectural projects usually have been presented in an objective way which the […]

A spatial exploration, based on interest in structures of certain spaces. Structures that give rhythm to space, can also feel disorienting and confusing, if you are looking at it form different angles. A 3D-mapping of some of the spaces explored in a minute film starts to take shape. Which leads to new possibilities of interpretation… […]

Railing A barrier consisting of a rail and supports. A simple structural element, mostly seen as a half wall. Extremely functional, needed, required. Our safety net. How silly of me hoping to find its redundant nature this October. An impossible task I created for myself. We all have already seen one railing. We know the […]

Oxford dictionary defines Brutalism as ‘A Stark of Style’ of functionalist architecture, characterized by the use of steel and concrete in massive blocks. Based on several film/fragments that incorporated brutalist architecture in its settings the characterisation of buildings in concrete and metal form emphasis on futurism and dystopian approach. Brutalism invoked the monotonous and melancholic […]

The movie “Wind will carry us” by Abbas Kiarostami is selected to work as a situational site for the project. The procedure which is appealing, was how the director used a small village in Iran to tell a story in which audience never sees an interior but a whole story takes place in urban spaces. […]

Starting from the photography of Paul Virilio and a fascination for the underground structures and interiors of bunkers, the situational site was born. It is an exploration of what inversion could mean and how spaces can emerge from it. The observation tower becomes open to the public. Transversing upwards they reach a lookout point, returning […]

As an intuitive start in the process and research I focused on the architectural sliding element, as ‘the door’, ‘gate’, ‘train’ or ‘cart’ following his track, becoming the guiding protagonist in the narrative. Without knowing what it is, you feel that this dividing element discovers his environment by travelling through inside/outside spaces, through rooms and […]

SHEDUCKTION: ON SYMBOLISM, SUPERFICIALITY AND STORYTELLING IN ARCHITECTURE The situational sites and procedural worlds in the one minute film were created by juxtaposing and merging film fragments from different worlds. The contradiction and confrontation between the footage generated an exciting surreal world with different atmospheres. Symbols, signs, allusions and characters were used to create a […]

It’s always more interesting to try to see the things you shouldn’t see. Guided by my constant curiousness, this project began with imagining what was going on in the other spaces of my one-minute film. A quote from the book ‘Waagstukken’ by Charlotte Van den Broeck perfectly describes this need to know more. “When I […]

Concluding Typologies Hana Khurshid Architecture can be looked at as a relational environment, where Architecture can start taking meaning due to its relationship to its various elements in space. Distance, rhythm, point of view, time all come into play. Architecture tends to have the power to dictate, move the user, make them curious, question, and […]

Holey Objects Suspend disbelief for a second – as solid as the buildings flanking Hikawa Street may be, in the right light, at the right time of day, they become so flimsy they might as well be made of wet tissue. Poke it and it’ll break. The streets in Sagamihara themselves are mundane to the […]

Are gears light on their feet when they dance? The project started with a fascination for performative quality and drama in architecture. Black and white, dark and light, determine the atmospheric effects, present in the space.   Within the process of this work, I have been exploring the quality of performative architecture, through the use […]