What dreams may come?

Status: COMPETITION

 

I conceived this design for the Museum of Emotions competition, organised by Buildner.

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Participants were challenged to use architecture as a tool to bring out different emotions; the brief was to design a museum that included two separate exhibition halls that triggered contrasting emotions – one inducing negative emotions, and the other inducing positive emotions.

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Being sceptic about the prescriptive nature of architecture, and believing that it would be impossible to impose a very specific emotion ubiquitously, I decided to create two contrasting settings in which visitors could extract the individual emotion they felt.

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Both halls would aim to recreate paintings that, on a personal level, make me positively dream or remind me of a nightmare:

- The good dream space is a 3D interpretation of Giorgio de Chirico's Piazza d'Italia

- The bad dream space is a spatial recreation of M. C. Escher's Relativity