Experiencing Rooms : - tale of two pathos(es)

Abstract: Experiences, narratives and architecture are seemingly connected; therefor this thesis project attempts to explore the transformation of emotions and impressions from an ‘artwork’ into architectural components and sequences of spaces. Our “artwork” and generator for this thesis has been the film The Square by Ruben Östlund. It is not a “complete/regular” suggestion on a certain site with a solved program; we have instead chosen to see this project as an investigation and a sketching process, a fundamental research. Our starting point has been based in our common interest for the perception and we wanted to explore how we as architects could bring out rooms through intuitive feelings and methods. The interest around how architecture just like anything else is interpreted different between persons and how many variations it can create, how we as architects work with creating for other people and how our intention rarely ends up being the final result.   -How can the understanding and translation of experiences be made with architectural elements when only having the experience to generate from? -How can the narrative be transformed from one tale to another? -How can interpretations from two architects meet/unite in a creation for people to experience something new in? This thesis started with 10 methods where different subjects as for example: “direction, dramaturgy or spatiality” where analyzed and represented. These methods was for us a way to test what we could find in this movie to continue build something upon. These methods where made week after week and we had not set them out from the start, they came as the process begun. The building or series of rooms we now have created is what we would like to call the 12th method, also a test and part of the process of searching for translation. What we have chosen to work with in terms of film is the cutting. We have interpreted and translated the director Ruben Östlunds way of cutting into architectural means. We have assembled theses 14 rooms with: straight cuts, association cuts and juxta positioning. This project is two interpretations interwoven into one building, a monument of our so to say mental rooms generated from the same starting point/generator. The different scenes have evoked different feelings and impacts on us and have been translated into 14 rooms.