An Interval of Silence
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A speculative spatial study where architectural elements become protagonists, shifting the role of the observer from viewer to author.
Concept
Inspired by Roland Barthes' S/Z, the project proposes that once a building is dismantled into its constituent elements, these fragments begin to form new narrative relationships beyond function. Walls, columns, openings, and slabs — no longer passive — reclaim agency and become subjects rather than background. This shift questions: When humans are no longer the central protagonists, how does space speak?
Spatial & System Strategy
The project treats distance and interval as narrative devices. Instead of designing continuous space, it intentionally inserts fractures, pauses, and spatial tension between elements. Movement through these intervals slows down perception, making visitors aware of light, shadow, sound, and time as spatial material. The layout becomes a field of symbolic encounters, where each step negotiates between presence and absence, reality and imagination.
Element & Interval
Each architectural fragment was cast individually in cement and rearranged as autonomous spatial actors. Their placement generates zones of proximity and withdrawal, forcing the observer to navigate like an element among elements. Circulation is no longer linear; it is interpretive, dependent on how each person reads the gaps. The work treats the void not as leftover space but as narrative matter, giving silence spatial form.
Outcomes
Presented as a full-scale installation, the work allowed viewers to shift roles—from occupied to occupier, from reader to author. Rather than delivering a fixed spatial sequence, the project created multiple narratives through perception and movement, proving that architecture can operate as open text, where meaning is constructed through experience rather than imposed by design.
