01_Virtual Khan
Students: Awkar Ruel, Malek El Shafie & Nathan Bozinoski
Exposing active fiction by exploring how a stranger can permanently unsettle and alter social and spatial relationships to break constraints. Whilst, providing the presence of a mechanism that calibrates dormant fiction by provoking anxieties, desire, fascination, and repulsions based on past encounters. Through this, simultaneous and alternate realities are constructed that unearth personal and collective experiences of the city.
“One who is close by is remote,
One who is remote by is near”
- Lindsay Bremner
One who is remote by is near”
- Lindsay Bremner
I AM SPEAKING, CAN YOU HERE ME?
Located within the holiday inn, the intervention reflects a space of waiting, editing and contemplating, where postcards can be re-written, this intervention allows the users to access a physical space that is restricted through their memories and the reappropriated architectural elements
A compositional plan encompassing a hybrid of plan, elevation and axonometric views
which tackle the render and further facilitate the rehearsal of memories. In plan, the
bank is further appropriated utilising orthographics as another means of rehearsal.
which tackle the render and further facilitate the rehearsal of memories. In plan, the
bank is further appropriated utilising orthographics as another means of rehearsal.
BETWEEN HERE AND THERE
Between here and there, which used the grande theatre facade elements, and was located in Nejmeh square.The aim of the subverted facade intervention is to disturb the existing circulation of the site, whilst subverting the functionality of the facade. Instead of the colonial principles of direct views towards and forced circulation to landmarks, the intervention undermines its authority, promoting a more organic and personalised experience throughout the space. Thus providing an optimum environment for discussions and interactions to occur.
A compositional plan encompassing a hybrid of plan, elevation and axonometric views which
tackle the render and further facilitate the rehearsal of memories. In plan, the facade can be
further reappropriated and subverted utilising orthographics as another means of rehearsal.
tackle the render and further facilitate the rehearsal of memories. In plan, the facade can be
further reappropriated and subverted utilising orthographics as another means of rehearsal.
THROUGH ME, WE SEE
Located on a blast site, allows users to access the back of stage of our personal treatise, giving them the opportunity to introduce their own desires, biases and memories into our work. Further allowing us to expand our object selection and go beyond the grand theatre to create new interventions in the future.
A compositional plan encompassing a hybrid of plan, elevation and axonometric views which
tackle the render and further facilitate the rehearsal of memories. In plan, the curtain can be
further reappropriated and subverted utilising orthographics as another means of rehearsal.
STAIRCASE TOO...
An ongoing installation located on the shoreline of beirut, This intervention seeks to
create a place of stillness and reflection, where users can recall memories and experiences.
An ongoing installation located on the shoreline of beirut, This intervention seeks to
create a place of stillness and reflection, where users can recall memories and experiences.
