Thesis | Dreams | Light | Time | Architecture
Imagined space can be conceived through time within dreams. But can a space we physically occupy be just as fantastical? The observation of light interacting with space lead to something dreamlike through its relationship with the planes. Shadows become a vital counterpart to the strength of light. A space made up of planes with shadows that converge and mutate through time cannot only be imagined it can be found and created.
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Imagined space can be conceived through time within dreams. But can a space we physically occupy be just as fantastical? The observation of light interacting with space lead to something dreamlike through its relationship with the planes. Shadows become a vital counterpart to the strength of light. A space made up of planes with shadows that converge and mutate through time cannot only be imagined it can be found and created.

Study 2 from Samantha Weinryb on Vimeo.

Very early on I decided my explorations would be at a 1:1 scale. It is
because the experience of a space that allows me to find moments of an imagined
space. In reflection to making this next series and the previous study, I concluded
where my study of dream-like architecture should go. It is a 1:1 scale project and it
would be an installation that can be experienced on a site.
To imagine how a space can be designed for light, I worked on four models
that I took outside to observe how light interacts with each.

Study 1 from Samantha Weinryb on Vimeo.

Very early on I decided my explorations would be at a 1:1 scale. It is
because the experience of a space that allows me to find moments of an imagined
space. In reflection to making this next series and the previous study, I concluded
where my study of dream-like architecture should go. It is a 1:1 scale project and it
would be an installation that can be experienced on a site.
To imagine how a space can be designed for light, I worked on four models
that I took outside to observe how light interacts with each.

Ways of Working: Wire

The Mobile: Breaking Apart a Cube

Calder based the solid shapes in his mobiles on leaves and birds that move through the sky. The planes of this mobile initially seem just to be two shapes of various sizes. Yet the way I assembled them revealed a fascinating relationship among the planes. Their positions could be seen as frames of an object moving in time and changing in size.

Ways of Working: Wire

Sculptor Alexander Calder: The Mobile

My initial attraction to Calder’s Mobiles was based on his use of wire. The unique quality of wire allows it to be a 2-dimentional and 3-dimentional form simultaneously. However, I discovered another quality to these mobiles when i replicated one based on these images above.

Dreams & Architecture

Last summer I was watching an on-location news report on the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. A reporter stood in front of an old colonial house that had lost half of the land it sat on and now cantilevered over a newly formed river. This image immediately jogged my memory, recalling a similar image from my dreams. Standing in a room with an open floor plan, glazing on all sides, I approached a corner. As I reached the window I became aware of the context of the building; it existed above a river of speeding cars.

I am interested in thinking of an architecture that is not built or physical but instead is something that is imagined; a materialization of a space changing through time an, architectural dream space.

The role of dreams within an architectural space is where I began, specifically the ingredients that allow for the imagined and the 4th dimension, time. Early explorations lead me to a discovery of something dream-like through a relationship between light and the planes it intersects. I explored light articulated through movement and how influential light was in creating a dream-like space. I learned how Calder articulated the relationship of planes in a mobile.

Through my own study, based on Calder’s technique, I discovered shadows and that the object itself may not be as important as the light that framed them. Movement was in play and in turn it plays with light. I could find an imagined space through these fragments and when they move in relationship with each other, I could let my imagination fill in the voids between them. The coalescence of fragments and the spaces between them become the part I occupy. And the part I continue to explore through my final Installation.