⌻◘ DREAM DIMENSION Undergraduate Thesis
2020 - 2021
Site : The Mind + Minato City, Tokyo
Advisor : Jim Bassett
Thesis as a process of self-exploration and self-actualization-
The final year of B.Arch programs, thesis year, represents an opportunity for students to produce fully independent architectural projects, and I took it as an opportunity to develop a project out of my “self”.
The beginning of beginnings-
With an Instagram account ︎ic_amood, where a collection of photographs is arranged in the style of a looping color spectrum, thesis began as an analytical documentation of my personal experience of “synesthesia”, an extraordinary neurological and sensory condition defined as joined senses. The phenomenon comes in unique varieties for each synesthete; for me, my brain automatically associates things varying from objects, spaces, people, places to emotions with the sensory perception of colors.
Identical to how Wassily Kandinsky described this everyday fantasia, my color associations occur involuntarily and consistently, and is an omnipresence in my daily.
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The final year of B.Arch programs, thesis year, represents an opportunity for students to produce fully independent architectural projects, and I took it as an opportunity to develop a project out of my “self”.
The beginning of beginnings-
With an Instagram account ︎ic_amood, where a collection of photographs is arranged in the style of a looping color spectrum, thesis began as an analytical documentation of my personal experience of “synesthesia”, an extraordinary neurological and sensory condition defined as joined senses. The phenomenon comes in unique varieties for each synesthete; for me, my brain automatically associates things varying from objects, spaces, people, places to emotions with the sensory perception of colors.
“I saw all my colours in spirit, before my eyes. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me.”
Identical to how Wassily Kandinsky described this everyday fantasia, my color associations occur involuntarily and consistently, and is an omnipresence in my daily.
