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A small piece of text inscribed on a painting by Paul Gauguin — probably the most profound question one can ask. The latter question in particular sets the scene for this architectural project: a speculative proposition for a future in which we create a symbiotic relationship with technology.
If we accept the Darwinian theory of evolution, given the rate at which technology is advancing, it is only a matter of time before this becomes reality. This poses an important question: what is the future of architecture?
Architecture exists in the experience of it, and therefore within the mind, mixed with emotions. The essence of architecture is not embedded in the walls, form, or any other element — it lies in what happens between and within them, what it conjures up as experience.
This project seeks not only to question how we experience architecture but how these experiences reconstruct themselves in the face of a new hyperreal landscape embedding itself within the fabric of time.
Space constantly calibrates itself to accommodate the endless shifting sensations and moods of the perceiving subject. The opioid garden is designed to enhance the experience of architecture beyond the visual. We are an ocular-centric society, and most of our perception depends on visual stimulus.
Here, the architecture enables occupants to experience its intricacies through all their senses — the space becomes an extension of the mind, the stage on which we dance to the rhythms that line the walls, trace the light that reveals the soul.
