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ENIGMA: Lucien Herve's Piece of Infinity

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Politecnico di Milano - School of Architecture Urban Planning and Construction Engineering

Architectural Design Studio 2 - Interior Design

Professor: Nicolo Riva  

Team: Kristina Azarić, Federico Iannarone, Piotr Mandziuk

 

 

 

‘’A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation.”
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“A saying, question, picture, containing a hidden meaning; riddle.” 

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Space infinity is comparable with time. Each spot placed in infinite space is corresponding to a picture from creative opus of Lucien Herve. 
A picture is the act of capturing a precise and unique moment in time, a blink in a defined space. There are infinite ways to look at a moment, infite ways to experience it, depending on the picture itself and on the viewer.

 

The proposal tries to define infinity through  spatial sequence created on the grid where tangible objects are inserted to create illusion, and expand perception into unclear, imaginary, into the moment when the photograph was created. 

The project is an infinite system composed by domestic objects and reflective surfaces, able to reproduce in physical space the hidden meaning of each photo - read differently according to the many perceptions of diverse human minds - and to project the viewer directly into it. 

Using installation for support of the infinite grid system in combination with real, tangible objects to create an unclear but defined environment where users will be able to experience the notion of infinity and play of reality, tangible and intangible objects. Visitors by moving through this system define it more clearly, giving it motion and life with their emotions, reactions and interventions with placed objects and among users themselves.