The maintheme of the competition is Emotion Display, which uses a series of factors such as architectural space and materials to display emotions. In my opinion, two questions need to be considered: the first question is, how to translate the invisible emotions of human beings into the form of visible buildings? The second question is, how to display the complex, rich and rapidly changing emotions of human beings in a limited space?
For the first question, I was inspired by Bernard Tschumi's“Manhattan Transcript”(1980), in which Tschumi used a series of diagrams to explain the camera changes, the movement of the characters, and the development of the plot. This was a very inspiring and innovative attempt to translate the film elements which have the properties of space, color and motion into architectural elements. Therefore, I hope to use a similar methood, through the translation of the film, to show the emotional changes of the characters contained in it.
For the second question, I was inspired by a series of illusion by M.C.Escher and the film “Inception” by director Christopher Nolan, which let me experience the fragmentized and folding scenes that I haven’t perceive in before. In my opinion, the diversity of emotions is very similar to the spatial complexity, so I hope to use these interwoven Spaces to express one episode of the ”The Prestige”, the movieI selected. The prototypes of spaces - the building blocks,are first derived fromthe movie scenes, and then intersected by extracting features and Boolean operations to form ambiguous spatial experiences. By this way, when aaudience stands whereverthe viewpoint is, he can simultaneously feel the experience "gestalt" brought by the combination of spaces representing different emotions.