Margate memories：Case study

As the previous project we choosed the Margate, we decided to rethink this cities as surrealism or virtual space, investigate the space between the inner and outer realities. Free thinking about space is vital for an architect and I wanted to have some fun with spatial concepts. No restriction, the only rule I set was to get to it without a plan.

About the films：

I found the videos that recorded the history and short stories in Margate.

Case study: Surreal City in 3 Second Pauses

The temporal and spatial compression makes the city surreal. We try to find the Francis Bacon in an urban context. Is our reality real or surreal? As the metaphysical “space out” from the physical, and architecture “space out” from the pragmatics, “the other space” of “the heterotopia” appears, and the theatrical moments unveil in our daily life. 

Testing how far we can go with spatial paradox in the urban context by creating a series of hypothetical architecture moments.

Case study: Fragments of a Dream-like City: Collages by Tali Bayerecond Pauses

Young German artist Tali Bayer, based in Leipzig, is particularly inspired by natural and architectural structures when she creates her illustrations and collages. Sometimes juxtaposed like in an atlas, other times structured in more coherent, yet still dreamlike forms, the fragments of her compositions (that she makes by hand before digitalising them) live a human-less life of their own, like fragments of a suspended-childlike city.

As we researched a number of concept research and case study for the vitual space, we think the Margate city in our project can be a fragment space and people have the emotion of the space’s memories.

“Memory” is debris stack, through human vision, sound, touch, distance… A series of “perceptions” are used to understand the world. These memories of different dimensions form a transparent mirror superimposed with the real past. It partly “translates” the scenes of our past life, transmits and perpetuates emotions, and helps people complete the imagination of the future.