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Doubling and Desire

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Field Value
 
Creator Zepf, Diana
 
Date 2010-05-19T20:52:53Z
2010-05-19T20:52:53Z
2010-05-19T20:52:53Z
2010
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5203
 
Description This thesis proposes that an investigation into the phenomenon of doubling may engage architecture with a type of desire that has deep rooted connections with the complexities of human nature, with the very human condition of desiring to know who/what/where/when/how we are. It proposes that an experience of doubling is suggestive of a specific kind of affective space that tests this relationship, expanding into the interval we have formed between our body, its being and space. The proposal is to explore the material, spatial, and psychological characteristics of such a phenomenon - to understand the virtual space created through this doubling and its architectonic characteristics.

The design ambition of this thesis is to construct an architectural fiction that engages with this doubling. If architecture has the capacity to embody the ambitions and anxieties of society, the work produced attempts to invoke, through choreographed doublings manifested by the movement of figure and light through constructions in time, that human condition of desire that is concerned with finding/defining itself in the unknown, not to provide an answer for what the unknown is, but to engage with its enigmatic nature. By engaging in the protean dynamics of doubling and desire, this thesis attempts to poeticize the interval between the body and its built environment.
 
Language en
 
Subject doubling
desire
interval
figure
ground
poetic
imagination
oneiric
ontology
phenomenology
virtual
body
building
protean
unknown
Architecture
 
Title Doubling and Desire
 
Type Thesis or Dissertation
 
##plugins.schemas.dc.fields.degree.name## School of Architecture
Master of Architecture