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What is a celebration ? What is wedding about ? How could architecture translate emotions into shapes ? A wedding is a journey where two people are tied together. There is a before and an after. There is the void in the past, the ceremony in the present and the path, that will lead to the future. In architecture, the past is behind us, when the future is embodied by the distant view. As we can see in the diagram, the shape combines the spiritual idea of a wedding, with site specific data. Moreover, it is often a compromise between two ideals. Here, it is between the exterior and the interior, between the bird and the tree : the nest. The shape itself comes from different sections mixed
together. Then it is triangulated for structural reasons. The size of the windows changes based on the orientation and the amount of light needed. A lot of the light coming inside the building is zenithal but also from the sunset lights. Openings can open, rotating in the middle. The building is entirely closed, and the entrance is hidden in the structure. The windows that open for the entrance are also use as an outside space. The structure and the panels are made of wood, with a colour contrast on the outside and inside. The shape is holding thanks to pots and cables inside the void. On the inside around the tree trunk is the ramp to “climb� to higher levels. The inside carries a lot of emotional expressions, by the colour but also, because everything is hanging out of the ceiling, just like inside a tree house.
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