Project 2: Room & Narrative

You will transform a painting of domestic interior scene, either from a 17 th-century Dutch painting or that of Edward Hopper in the early 20 th century, into a series of inhabitable rooms. The ambience, or the spatial and textual qualities, of the painting are to be explored in architectonic and yet expressive manners. You are encouraged to uncover the original narrative of the assigned painting, or to superimpose a narrative onto the painting, and then to 'materialize' this narrative into a 'receptacle' that is inhabited by human figures. The meaningful roles of windows and doors will be studied in order to understand the significance of the demarcation between the internalized room and the outside world. You will begin to 'contaminate' architectonics with envisaged human occupation in this project.