Chambers of Hallucination

cRITIC

Danielle Willems

TEAM

Tianqi Han, Song Zhang, Sahil Shah, Wenyi Zhang

PROJECT STATEMENT

This project is an investigation of the possibilities of hallucination in an architectural context. The overall geometry is based on three tunnels interlocking with each other and the solid members creating the hallucinated effects by means of several different applications of the mirrors, including the mirror reflecting the real world, the mirror reflecting the tunnel itself and creating the non-existing infinite space and the angled mirror reflecting single object to infinity. Integrating the weaving patterns created by the material of carbon fiber and the three-dimensional drawing patterns designed upon the planar surfaces of the overall geometries, this installation is supposed to create an atmosphere of illusions so that a question of “whether it is real or fake” and “believe it or not” is thrown out to the audience. 

Overall, the idea of the installation is manifesting architectural hallucination versus real world. We focus on how the tunnels could be better wrapped with carbon fibers and enclosed with partial solids, how the hallucinations could be developed in the interior void and finally how the façades could be ambiguously dizzy by means of the patterns.