Brussels: A Scenographic Sequence

Brussels: A Scenographic Sequence

Radescu, M.

Rommens, O. (mentor)
Schoonderbeek, M.G.H. (mentor)
Jennen, P. (mentor)

Architecture

Public Building

Border Conditions

2013-07-02

Architecture is capable of immortalizing the transformation of a series of fragments into a whole, and this would be what I called the scenographic architecture. The research that followed was based on this speculation and tried to immortalize my own experience of a specific peripheral condition in Brussels. This stage led, through various experiments to a coherent mapping according to the personal fascination and the studio’s methodology. Eventually, it helped defining a set of design tools that coagulated in a design method that I considered it has the potential to refine into a design. Thus, I tested this method at three different scales: furniture, architectural and urban scale. The way the process of testing evolved was very much based on a non-linear approach, and finally, two of the scales merged (the urban and architectural). Naturally, a new set of contextual constraints helped coagulating on one hand, a local urban strategy for that specific Brussels condition, and on the other hand, the urban strategy led to the integration of the architectural scale. Finally I chose to focus and detail the architectural scale. The final design has taken the form of a house for an artistic community of 8-10 persons. Within my proposal, the notion of the house was reinterpreted according to a set of implications of the used design method. The reason for which I chose to design a house is partly rooted in the fascination of working with contrasting elements. In this case the contrasts or almost conflictual conditions are prefigured on one hand by the unconventionality of the spatial language and the fundamental aspects of the house. My final challenge was to surpass the conventional way of understanding the concept of the house through design. In order to embrace this confrontation I appealed to the notion of fragmentation and to a set of scenographic tools, which brings us back to my initial statement that the scenographic architecture is the one capable of embracing the transformations of a series of fragments into a whole.

border conditions
experimental housing
scenography

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2013-07-31

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2013 Radescu, M.