Heterotopia
Fall 2019
Prof. Zahra Safaverdi
Cleveland, Ohio
Featured in MASKS “the other” publication | Fall 2019
Featured in “the other” exhibition at Kent State CAED | Fall 2019
Featured in Kent State CAED Spring Student Showcase | Spring 2020
Featured in “All for the Best” lecture by Prof. Zahra Safaverdi | Fall 2020
Featured in “the other” exhibition at Kent State CAED | Fall 2019
Featured in Kent State CAED Spring Student Showcase | Spring 2020
Featured in “All for the Best” lecture by Prof. Zahra Safaverdi | Fall 2020
Each “world” was then populated with a scene based on a typical heterotopian space as described by Foucault. The scenes are; the garden, cemetery, storage room, aquarium, and mental hospital. Each space in and of itself exists as “the other” apart from the typical rules and logic of typical reality. This notion of “other” is then intensified as the worlds are mirrored on the interior, reflecting in on themselves.
This optical game was conducted as a study, of the effects that can be produced by different shapes and sizes of mirrors, with the scenes themselves serving as the control and the shapes of the solids serving as the main variable. It is from this analysis that further spaces were designed.
Images produced were not altered through Photoshop but instead explorations in and direct outputs of rendering softwares.
The representation is a take on the Venturi plan creating a "stitch" of the ground plan and sections of the proposed structure. The sections and plans begin to break against one another merging into one drawing as the poche becomes one. The drawing invites the viewer to walk across the poche looking into the spaces climbing in, if interested, and “code-switching” from plan and section as they move through.
The model exists as a re-spatialization of this "stitch" of plan and section. Creating a similar space to the original building but reimaging and estranging the typical volumes.
These autotopia spaces are subverted and paralleled against "normative" representations of their inspirations. These "normal rooms" are effectually and optically normative and spatially and geometrically estranged.