architecture / design / art
Humans are curious creatures instinctively aroused by the weird and wonderful. My thesis project investigates curiosity as a fundamental condition of human development, and how it is provoked architecturally through our everyday experiences and material possessions. It explores the role of architecture as a multifaceted art for inspiring and orchestrating wonder, desire and discovery through an eclectic composition of influences and spatial sequences.
The project is located in Aarhus, Denmark and manifests as a Gift Shop that acts as a portrait of the complex and ever-changing human condition. Through an interwoven labyrinth of 5 rooms, the Gift Shop explores our identity through its Social, Cultural, Intellectual, Moral and Sexual components, offering an opportunity for residents of Aarhus to be curious about, and experiment with the uncertainties of ordinary life. It is the desire of the thesis to speculate the spatial identity of curiosity while utilising architecture as an explorative and social practice that provokes a world of fantasy abundant with possibility.