Personal — 2015
The Sun Also Rises
Museum for a film
This project investigates the linguistic nature of space to tell a story, exploiting the interactivity of architecture to draw the narrative into a reciprocity between narrator and viewer — and challenging it with open readings.
A museum is proposed for Wen Jiang’s film The Sun Also Rises, which unfolds through a non-linear narrative of four sub-stories woven between characters, misplaced timelines, and illusions of causality. Taking a structuralist point of view, the design embarks on a pure spatial abstraction of the film’s narrative structure rather than its plots, montaging rooms and routes into a myth of the film itself.
Taking a structuralist view, the museum abstracts the film's non-linear narrative rather than its plot. Four sub-stories — misplaced timelines, tangled events, illusions of causality — are montaged into a spatial myth.
Spatial translators convert the film's narrative devices into architecture: thresholds, loops, and framed views that let visitors read the story out of sequence, as narrator and viewer meet in reciprocity.
