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 peripheral reality, while time is the catalyst for spatial memory formation.  

Architecture, as the conditioning of air, has brought us spatial ramifications where events take place. However, the experiences that shape 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 forms thresholds and generates symbolic perception from repetition. As the structured envelope layered with programs is the reality of architecture, mastering the flow of duration to experience a series of 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 oblivion to awareness. 

Recognition: SCI-Arc UG Thesis

Special Thanks to: Karel Klein, Erik Ghenoiu, Shelley Luo, Raunak Chaundhary, Adam Lu, Rain Wang, Yulin Lin, Tobie Wang