DOMESTI-CITY: Unravelling the Room through the Universe

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures." Ralph Waldo Emerson

JONAH FREEMAN, 1983, 2006 DIGITAL C-PRINT

Architectural fiction enables the construction of imaginary worlds that draw inspiration from the real spaces we encounter yet allow us to break from reality through the scale, sequence or way in which we choose to inhabit them. What if the city is suddenly scaled down to fit inside a house? What if the public urban realm suddenly became enclosed within the private seclusion of an interior - a strange inversion that would allow us to navigate through the complexity of the city as though it is familiar, everyday and domestic. Storytelling allows us to understand spaces in new ways. Not constrained by reality, the story imbues spaces with new meaning - scale is arbitrary, sequenced randomly. The story woven around objects within the urban interior define the scale at which they can be inhabited. 

VORTOGRAPH, SIMON GARDINER

Just a beginning  - will develop the idea of architectural fiction as a way to link the past to speculations about the future, which could tie in my Re-con. Also, the idea of the city scaled to the house - inverting the brief to capture the universe within the room.