Jiahao (Fred) Ge
When does architecture disappear?
While attending immersive performances, my awareness of architectonic vanishes as the chandelier goes dim and the stage reveals itself. My thesis questions the role of architecture in one's perception as the peripheral reality, while time is the catalyst.
Architecture, as mediation of air, has brought us spatial ramifications where events take place. However, the sensory experiences that shaped by the physical, time to time, amplify our consciousness beyond sensing its existence. The project, situated in the context of Dusseldorf, proposes an opera house typology in which the audience follows a sequence in fragmented stimuli - A folded duration. While seeing the opera in a linear progress accumulates serial perception, changing directions and forming thresholds generate symbolic perception from repetition. As the structured envelope with programs is the reality of architecture, mastering the flow of duration to identify enclosures is the periphery of architecture.
4/4, the "common time" in music, is the tool to capture volumetric space in time and the ambiguity from unaware to aware.
