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CONCLUSION OF THESIS TOPIC My project topic, surrealism in architecture, has proven to be a great topic for me to explore and learn about. I have ended this semester with more questions than answers about my topic, but feel I have learned a lot along the way. I’ve learned that space can be influenced and designed by techniques of surrealism and can lead to experiential moments of uncertainty, as well as that surrealism has opened up possibilities not seen before in the design process itself. A designer needs the elements of something real and recognizable in order to captivate the user and pull them into the surreal world, where the rest is left up to their imagination. There needs to be a balance of vagueness and clarity. Specifically in my project, the clarity should be in the details of how this building could possibly be constructed, and the vagueness is kept in the way the spaces are experienced. 159
CONCLUSION OF THESIS SEMESTER The process of my thesis project has been very fluid, but that’s not to say it was easy. The work completed in my thesis prep I & II courses gave me a strong foundation of research, as well as a conceptually solid base for my project. The chosen site of the underground abandoned Tremont Street subway tunnel in Boston stayed into the next semester, giving me inspirational cues and atmospheric qualities that helped with my project. The programmatic qualities of a hostel allowed me extreme flexibility with the programmatic requirements and the “scripted” narration that guided the project. The beginning of this semester was learning to be more lose with thought; to not edit or think about what I was doing. That is in itself what surrealism was about in the process of their making. I had a few design trials that helped me ease into this mind set. My hyper-rational mind was having a hard time not having a reason for everything I was doing, but I had to trust the process. It led me to making things that invited the imagination to complete what it was supposed to be. These initial studies gave me inspiration for spaces that I would have not come up with had I just tried thinking it through. There were formal studies that gave way to some of the spatial qualities in the hostel, as well as a text-inspired script of the programmatic uses. This process taught me to let go when designing in order to gain inspiration for things not yet discovered. I believe that it’s the combination of the yearlong studies as well as the final review that truly help understand what I did here. The review went really well, due to the nature of the critics understanding my project right away and jumping in with comments that were exactly what my thesis was addressing. Almost everything that was discussed was valid and well informed. The exciting comments for me were that I was courageous to tackle this topic and to let go of rational thought, as well as that the process was linked, although some of the formal studies could have been more incorporated into the design. Some of the more constructive criticism was about the absence of representation of the cinematic experiential qualities that I was intrigued with, and the plan being overly worked and bigger than my experiential drawings. Overall, I am pleased with how my thesis developed over the past year and what I have learned about my own process of making and designing that I will continue to integrate into my work. 161
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TRANSFORMATION UNDERGROUND: SURREAL
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“The man who cannot visualize a h
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INVESTIGATION OF THE THESIS TOPIC
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VISUAL ABSTRACT 13
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IDEA MAP 17
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and imaginary as one existence. The
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a site for the “uncanny” to man
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in Artaud’s film. Artaud is intri
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in Michael Richardson’s Surrealis
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Surrealism and Architecture. Archit
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Short, Robert. The Age of Gold: Dal
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VISUAL STUDIES - PASSAGE OF TIME 45
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CONCLUSION Conducting scholarly res
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SITE ABANDONED UNDERGROUND SUBWAY T
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Page 39 and 40: AEROGRAPHY use of a 3D object as a
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Page 45 and 46: THREE-DIMENSIONAL ASSEMBLAGE Taking
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