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This research project begins and ends with an image. The image is not just representation but a spatial generator, able to construct, distort, and reimagine space. Photography explores the boundary between pictorial and spatial, perception and form. Through framing, reflection, distortion, and layering, the image becomes a foundation for rethinking how space is made.
Through iterative processes such as photographing, composing, projecting, extruding, and modeling, the project forms a design method based on transforming visual material. Photography becomes a tool of architectural production, mediating memory, narrative, and atmosphere. It questions how we see, what we recall, and how vision shapes spatial understanding.
Key questions arise: Can an image have architectural agency? How can visual information shape experience? The image becomes not just a source but a material that is editable, fragmentable, and projectable, with its logic embedded in space.
A library and auditorium proposal anchors the study, testing how architecture can behave like an image, shaped by light, movement, and shifting viewpoints.
Materialising the extrusions meant refining raw forms through 3D modelling. This process transformed abstract volumes into architectural elements, enabling detailed exploration of scale, structure, and spatial logic guided by the original image data.
From the beginning, I approached the foreshore with sensitivity to its quiet, hidden presence. A ramp rises from the sand to reveal the overlooked, while a suspended form, like a shipwreck, marks a threshold between the known city and forgotten shore
The ground floor plan uses layered elements to reveal spatial and structural logic, showing the footprint, above and below ground extrusions, structural cuts, and depth changes to express form, layering, and site integration
The central rope-like extrusion, inspired by rope photo studies, becomes a continuous architectural gesture. It forms elements like a bookshelf, stair, and reception desk, weaving space and function into a fluid sequence shaped by movement and line.
The renders capture shifting views of the building as one approaches, where the shipwreck image that shaped the form fragments and reconfigures. The form reveals new spaces and configurations, becoming an architectural image in motion.