Hylozoist Monastery of Benten-jima
‘My body is everywhere: the bomb which destroys my house also damages my body, in so far as the house was already the indication of my body’
Jean-Paul Sartre
Speculating on possible architectural futures, the project themes question the architectural reality and a lack of human-space influence. Contemporary façadism and made-believe perfect living conditions detach the user from inhabited environment.
In order to reconnect building shell with the individual and rehumanise the place, pain is emphasised as internationally comprehended tool of communication. It becomes a language that sparks consciousness, provokes critical assessment and creates a new strata for future architectural development.
Dialogue can turn architecture into an actor and concludes that _ architecture anthropologic; it is alive!
Through myth, hylozoist* and panpsychist** theories the boundary (a mirror***) between speculated perfect future (utopias) and the dark side of the speculation (heterotopia) is established.
The aim is for both to coexist, informing one another, improving one another, enacting the mirror as a new threshold _ the space within the mirror.
*all matter is alive
**consciousness, mind and soul (psyche) is a universal and primordial feature of all things
***mirror in Shintoism is a symbol of life, soul.
