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“The arrival becomes less important than the journey, for we get lost in the slow adventure.” Plummer, The Experience of Architecture

“…while in most types of architecture a path is simply an element that leads to other places, in a maze or labyrinth the path is the architecture.” Tartarella, Labyrinths & Mazes A Journey through Art; Architecture and Landscapes

I’m interested in incorporating ideas of the Labyrinth into my design. Creating a space that encourages exploration and interaction. In Gijs Van Vaerenbergh with Bollinger + Grohmann’s Labyrinth, shapes have been cut into the structure allowing “visitors to view the different parts of the labyrinth, intuit its progress, imagine the structure as a whole.” The design varies in composition depending on your perspective.

LABYRINTH, Jan Krticka, Moravia, Czech Republic, 2001 (p94) “To create a distinct area within a larger and potentially overwhelming environment. The labyrinth almost seems hidden in the forest, but the artist managed to create a clearly defined space with his walls of leaves that are held together with nylon thread and anchored to tress standing varying distances apart from each other.” “Labyrinth is based on a binary concept. The grid, the orderly element, represents monotony-things remaining the same yet generating confusion. Set within this grid, the labyrinth creates distance and acts as a specific and defining element. It establishes a closed space within an open space, an inside and outside, and delineates the private from the public.”

120 DOORS PAVILION, Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Concepcion, Chile, 2003 (p116) “...a single structure made of steel tubes and 120 standard-size wooden doors. The layout was organised around five concentric paths that led to a central room. The doors formed the perimeters, which served as borders and barriers that blocked or at least hindered progress along the path toward the innermost portion of the labyrinth.”

MEETING SLIDES, Carsten Holler, Billie Tsien, and Todd Williams, Kemi, Finland, 2004 (p178) “At first glance, Meeting Slides is just a carved snow platform, but the sculpture actually comprises a number of labyrinthine ramps that visitors can slide down to a central space.” “The use of light made the sculpture stand out from the monotonous Finnish winter landscape, indicating that there was more to be seen here than just an infinite field of snow-a specific site begging for exploration.”

“...while in most types of architecture a path is simply an element that leads to other places, in a maze or labyrinth the path is the architecture.” (p13)

“Solvitur ambulando (It is solved by walking). St Augustine said... In order to get to know a maze, you must follow it, enter it, get lost in it, and make your way out again.”  (p13)

“These Renaissance mazes... generally are multicursal; They have multiple paths that encourage users to meander along different routes, representing a mans freedom of choice and freedom from religious duty and symbolizing the era’s open attitude toward pleasure, which was no longer considered a sin.” (p14)

“The modern Labyrinth instills a sense of confusion or even coercion generated by paths that demand to be followed.” (p15)

Framing aspects of the shot rather than the entire shot. 

For the user-created videos, there needs to be a sound element to create an atmosphere within the space. This will not be an interactive element. If there were multiple audio tracks playing over one another it would create a chaotic atmosphere and therefore an unpleasant experience. 

How do you imagine people making their own film?

Size/Scale of screens.

More site specific - explorations of space with screens. Keep certain elements of the space but change slightly?

More grounded design 

Where is spatial rigour?

To cinema = reference e.g seating etc