My title is “Dissolve to see, Dissolve to free”. For my 1-minute video I asked myself a
couple of questions, “How can space grow or shift by ‘dissolving’ an element or the
existing space?” “How far can you search with the mirror for the spaciousness that was not there before?” With the word ‘dissolve’ I mean the mirror. Through the mirror you can open the limits of our reality. A new identity grows. You open a new spatial way of seeing, thinking and designing. I looked for this way of thinking in fragment/cut-out models and the reflection of a mirror. After a few tests and architectural models, I came to a cut-out of the Sint-Niklaas church in Gent. I experimented with the flying buttresses of the church. Those Gothic architectural elements felt like an interesting beginning point. How can I start with an architectural fragment and turn that into a growing new thing? The new ‘V-form’ I created by dissolving the limits of the flying buttresses became a new thing where I could work further and further on because you start to lose his original form. You start to create something new. My end goals were to look for new architectural structures made of this ‘V-form’, where you can imagine how you want to see it. The structures don’t have 1 definition; it can be any type of architecture. You can look, turn and rotate the models in the way you want to see them.
