Intrigued by Gordon Matta-Clarks art work I found a renewed fascination for disorientation in architecture. Wanting to experiment with it myself I chose my own site to work with and appropriate, being the back fa\u00e7ade of the Vooruit in Ghent. Since the fa\u00e7ade is full of ornaments while at the same time being limited in depth due to its function, all these different directions and shapes come together in a space where you could already get lost in.
\nTo emphasize this notion of disorientation I started drawing different fragments of the fa\u00e7ade to then photograph them in all kinds of different angles while also experimenting with softly folding them. Hence these photographs became blurry, not being able to catch the different depths of the folds. To erase this I redrew the pictures, only to then add a new ornament and redo the whole process again and again while continuously adding to the newfound space.
\nWhile following this self-imposed method I focused on my own abilities to remold and therefore redesign the existing site. Disorientation remained my point of interest and so I gave myself the chance to really diverge from the orthogonal designing we know. However, I did look out for how and where I used distortion as I wanted to keep my space empathizable instead of reducing it to a deformed image recognized by the brain. The space is not meant as a fully realistic building \u2013 but as a hybrid between a space that has gravity to it, allowing you to picture yourself in it and a space that could only ever exist as the image and therefore in the imagination.<\/p>\n