Fragments and Visions of a Spatial Discourse: Re-Viewing Georges Perec’sSpecies of Spaces

Morpheus: Dreamscape architectural operations

“…Contextually, language provides an everyday basis for patterning daily human life (McEwan, 2020). Yet, in the realms of a person's dreams, shifts, and transitions across multiple languages may happen (Martinelli, 2020).…”

“…Typology can be positioned as a conceptual tool that manifests the contextuality of its content, and typology can mediate between humans and their environment. Martinelli (2020) discusses such mediation in the way one's collection of dreams enable movement between realms, mediating between the imagination and reality. An architectural proposition based on the multitude language of dreams demonstrate possibilities of moving across different types of contexts and the realm of which human is positioned within their environment.…”

“…Trying to correlate the two ideas, operation of repetition in the iterations of dream put the system that acts between the familiar and unfamiliar. Martinelli (2020) discusses dreams consists of continuous transition, translation, and transfiguration, which generates evocative compositions that transcends between words, languages, and places. Another example of the existence of the unfamiliar operation of dreams is in the conflation sense of time, the missing parts, or the ambiguity of where things begun and stopped (Meyer, 2023).…”

Architecture and the subconscious

“…Focusing on the mental dimension of an individual is often avoided in architectural discussion due to its tendency for subjectivity and practical limitations (Pallasmaa, 2015). However, such subjectivity reflects the interaction of the personal mind with its surroundings, where there is a mediation between world and self, as the built environment projects the external condition of the mind, whilst internalising the world (Martinelli, 2020;Pallasmaa, 2015). The subjectivity of the subconscious provides important contributions, particularly in the process of making architecture, where subjectivity may enable new techniques and qualities of representation (Jamieson, 2015).…”