Yi Zhou MA interior and Spatial Design UAL summer show 2020

MEMORY THERAPY CENTER Translation of memory in space from the perspective of neuroscience

Sep. 2019 - Sep. 2020

YI ZHOU 19003221

MA Interior and Spatial Design

Introduction "Architecture collects a collective memory not individual memory necessarily. And it is necessary to mark collective memory, we also need to mark our moment in time with our architecture.

According to Hegelian, everything have a thesis and an antithesis. So the resolution it's never the whole thesis nor the anti thesis. It's partial."

- Peter Eisenman

CHAPTER ONE Researches This project is going to design a small building where people can store their memories, in case they have brain injury and forgotten things. As a respond to how memory can be transformed into space, the building would be looks like brain waves from outside. The interior spaces are transformed also from brainwaves lines, intended to give audience a sense of healing to relax then strong stimulation to help recall memories.

INSPIRATION - MEMORY OVERLAPPING

COMPARISON Red Brick Museum:

Tate Modern:

The exhibition space is larger, and the circular water curtain was placed in a large square space to guide people walk through the water curtain, stand in front of or behind the water curtain, follow the changes of light and shadow in different positions, and move freely in the space. This spatial design allowing people to participate more in the exhibition and interact with it.

The exhibition space is much smaller than that in Beijing.

There was just a single linear water installation inside, which hints at the route of walking, and is hard for people to interact with. This resulting in a single flow of people in the space.

RAINBOW INSTALLATION

Background:

Same exhibition, different museums

The inspiration came from the experience that I went to Red Brick Muesum in Beijing the second time. The first time that I went there was in June, 2018, and the second time was half a year after that. The exhibition presented by Olafur Eliasson and the unique spatial form made me very impressed with this museum. So when I walked into the museum for the second time, the last memory of the exhibition immediately came to my mind, overlapping with the real space in front of me and this reconstructed the space.

Commonality: Both two exhibitions contained the element of mirror and orange light to create atmosphere.

2018.6 Red Brick Museum PHOTOED BY THE AUTHOR

2019.10 Tate Modern

MIND MAP

INSPIRATION - LIVING INDIVIDUAL MEMORY

Brain-computer Interface

FIELD OF STUDY "Memory Palace" Exhibition

BERLIN MEMORIAL TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE

Sherlock Holmes Speak, Memory

Funes the Memories “In this monument there is no goal, no end, no working one’s way in or out. The duration of an individual’s experience of it grants no further understanding, since understanding the Holocaust is impossible. The time of the monument, its duration from top surface to ground, is disjoined from the time of experience. In this context, there is no nostalgia, no memory of the past, only the living memory of the individual experience.” [1]

The Art of Memory Memory in Neuroscience Questions of Preception The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience Crativity and Architecture

[1] https://eisenmanarchitects.com/Berlin-Memorial-to-the-Murdered-Jews-of-Europe-2005

Artificial Intelligence

Black Mirror 24H Memory

Conscious Control Déjà vu

Psychology

Mnemonic

Inside Out

CONSCIOUS MEMORY

MEMORY PALACE

Memory Therapy

Psychosis Disorder PTSD - Memory and Trauma Dadaism

MEMORY MEMORY OVERLAPPING Why can we remember a specific space for a long time?

"Body Memory"?

Neuroscience for Architecture

INVOLUNTARY MEMORY Stream of

In Search of Lost Memory Consciousness

PARALLEL SPACE-TIME Interview to find common things

Perception Senses Emotion Dream inception Multisensory

"Affordance"

"ANFA"

Neuroscience Memory Fragments in Brain

Memory Created in Brain

Case Study Interviews at White Cube

Q: Have you visited the exhibition?

A: Yes. Q: Do you remember which space did you went?

A: I remember there was a long corridor. With unconscious, I looked to the left hand side first. Went in and browsed it, and then I walked across the corridor to the hall on the right.

After I got out, I went down the hall. I looked around in the left room and then the right.

The sequence was first left, then right, before, after.

Q: How can you recall your memory of spaces?

A: I feel like my brain likes folders. My memories were classified according to the locations. For instance, when I think about rice, the scene of kitchen was shown in my mind.

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White Cube

First Scene Corridor

Memory Palace is named after the classical mnemonic technique, originating in Ancient Greece, which catalogues memories within familiar locations. Devlin identifies the rooms in which significant shifts in human thinking took place and plots them within identifiable fragments of cities and buildings to create a personal atlas of the evolution of thought. The 18-metre-wide sculptural work, carved from bamboo, features mirrored planes that multiply its dimensions to enable a reimagining of time and space.

Images: https://www.gooood.cn/memory-palace-by-es-devlin.htm

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Cognitive Map

Memory Palace Exhibition, Es Devlin

Second Scene Room Locations

Changes of size, location

CONCLUSION In people's cognitive map of spatial memory, the size and location would be changed according to different notice. The size of the noticed places might be exaggerated, but the details would be ignored.

And the place location would be shifted since different walking route.

CHAPTER TWO Form Exploring This Chapter is intended to exploring the spatial form. Finding familiar elements or identifiable fragments which can evoking collective memory. And multiply its dimensions to enable a reimagining of time and space finally to achieve the memory therapy purpose.

DATA COLLECTION Brainwaves as patterns Real-time change

Gamma waves represent emotional memory waves and tension and excitement values. The alpha wave is the degree of relaxation, the beta wave is the degree of concentration, the delta wave represents almost no working in the brain, and theta wave represents the deep relaxation wave. The curve generated according to the magnitude of these values is the feedback of the relaxation and concentration of the human brain.

Actual / Fictional Physical / Virtual

BRAINWAVE SCREENSHOT

https://www.archdaily.com/937051/when-machines-design-artificial-intelligence-and-the-futureof-aesthetics

http://woodstreetgalleries.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Infinity-Room-06.jpg

CURVES EXTRACTION Some parts of the curves were extracted and constructed into walls to explore the spatial form.

CURVES SIMULATION

After being tested in a digital way, then the curves were simulated by models to test the forms in reality.

Also, the "negative" shape and "positive" shape mentioned in former pages were explored in these experiments.

EXPERIMENT PHOTOS Media: Water bubbles Place: a warehouse near site Participants: 2 These are some of the sreenshots of my experiments process video. The shape would be extracted from these to reshape the bubble space.

TYPOLOGY - gathered and scattered

On the left, these are the illustrations of surface forms selected from the bubble experiment photos. This represents typological research, these illustrations covered most of the bubble types.

The gathered and scattered of bubbles are trying to find the relationship in the final space.

Gathering

As I mentioned in former experiments, bubbles were used to find out multiple dimensions spatial forms to enable a reimagining of time and space.

Extracting the form outline

The extracted outline would be the foundation of approximate final building, and the facade will be adjusted according to my brainwaves experiments.

ELEMENTS IN SPACE

CHAPTER THREE Designing

The directions of the lines could be coverted into the wave on building surface.

I was inspired by the process of the bubble being squeezed and leaking air.

The purpose of this chapter is to design the project based on the previous experimental and research contents, and to integrate it into the environment by combining the site situation analysis.

The trial of making interior spatial in section.

The model experiments indicated the way that brainwaves coverted into wave on building. surface.

FORM GENERATION

Surface Part

Spike Part

SURFACE ATTEMPTS

The principle of this experiment is to simulate the process of balloon leakage and shrinkage, and obtain different skin morphology through the change of data.

FORM GENERATION

Original Geometry

Smooth

Smooth Twice

Establishing a grid

Take points on the grid

Endowed centripetal force

Random reduction points

Create a surface with points

Extract the structure lines on the surface

Pipe the lines

SURFACE DETAIL

Thousands of spikes are glass tubes, each containing a memory of a person.

INTERIOR SPACE ATTEMPTS

SECTION

Section at night

Rendering

The light that the spikes bring into the interior space is concentrated at the top, like holy light.

The tubes are made of glass and light can be spiked into the interior space.

A rendering of the building on the site.

It is hidden in the mountains and echoes the existing landscape installation of the site, and the treatment room is accessible by walking down the stairs.