Finding Hy-Brasil

Finding Hy-Brasil: The Gateway Between Reality And Unreality

Zhang, Yuanpeng (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Berlage)

Frausto, S.E. (mentor)
Avissar, I (mentor)
Weaver, T. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

The Berlage Post-MSc in Architecture and Urban Design

2019-02-01

Through Irish history, different spiritual demands in specific historical moments impacts on the legends of Hy-Brasil. In turn, the stories of Hy-Brasil reflects the history of Ireland through its possible position, appearances, items events, viewpoints gateways and monuments. The project is to use the history of Hy-Brasil, a mystical island of Ireland, to explore the architecture of myth, which are expected to be triggered and formed by the current situation of Ireland. It looks to design a pragmatic space by providing a gateway to the mythic island of Hy-Brasil. Siting on the north end the Ireland, the Lough Foyle in Donegal, the project constructs an architectural artifact out of a particular strata of Ireland’s specific geology and monumental landscape to take people into the imagination and expectation of perceive the Irish mythology.

Ireland
Myth
Architecture
Hy-Brasil
suspension
blief
landscape
Heterotopia

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Student theses

master thesis

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