The Dying Dreamer website is a visual presentation of research work in progress. The site feature... more The Dying Dreamer website is a visual presentation of research work in progress. The site features active illustrations that allow for interpretation in a spatial context. These illustrations, in making and as presentation, are analytical collages, some created from a model of the mansion as described in the novel then distorted as the narrative take leaps in space and time. Link to online work-in-progress: http://www.arch.kth.se/~zimm/
Joris-Karl Huysmans published the novel A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884, at a stylistic turnin... more Joris-Karl Huysmans published the novel A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884, at a stylistic turning point between naturalism and mysticism in his writing career. This interlude work comprises, in an unsurpassed way, the essence of decadence and symbolist aesthetisism. Against Nature has provided my work with a scope of ideas and examples of social and sensory conditions, artificial creations, hyperaesthetic configurations and synesthetic instruments, all aimed at supporting the inner world of imagination of the main character of the novel, Baron Des Esseintes. Physical space and architecture in Huysmans’ text are means to augment and redirect perception. The narrative space and time shift between three main narrative modus, identified as present space (the actual physical location of the body in the mansion), revived space (spaces restored from memory), and evoked space (spaces conjured up from stimuli, as art or smells, a dream state of mind). The Baron is striving for an alternativ...
I am also very grateful to all the helpful staff at the KTH School of Architecture, whose efforts... more I am also very grateful to all the helpful staff at the KTH School of Architecture, whose efforts range from administrational support to serving capricious computers. In the last few weeks of intense work, Staffan Lundgren at Axl Books made an offer as unexpected as it was welcome, to publish this thesis. I very much appreciate his brave enterprise and immense patience and support in this project. I am grateful to Alan Gibson who has been very helpful with last minute proofreading. My most beloved ones; my beautiful sister Tomasine, my mother Kim, my father Bengt and my grandmother Karin, are never far away and always helpful, supportive, full of energy and joy, in anything from accommodating the cats to stirring up a good stew and a good laugh, thank you for everything. Lastly; closest to my heart, Peter, for your brightness and glow, where I always want to be, and Joel, my best co-driver and most trusted swordsman. Finally, my greatest debt of gratitude is to Peter who has put so much skill, time and energy into the graphic design of this thesis, in the process of shaping it into the book in your hand. Here is where all the work put into this work, by all contributors, really matters-as it materialises. Enjoy! The plot is an invitation into a story. The plot offers entry to narrative space, structuring desire into a forward motion through the text. The plot is the instrument for navigation and organisation of any linear storytelling. As architecture aspires to organise space in time, the plot seeks to create meaning and order in narrative space and time. A significant semantic leap unites the dictionary definition of the modest bean plot to the great machinery of conspiracy. The ontological range from the cemetery plot to the control-instrument of the map is tantalising. It provides structure and progression in fiction, enabling the author to weave a web of intrigues and the reader to navigate the network of a story. In physical reality, the plot is a virtual instrument that brings together the field and its governing plan. To plot is to make a plan, map, or diagram of an existing object, as a portion of the earth's surface, or a building. 1 The plot signifies the measured piece of land, the planning or drawing to lay this down on a map, and
The Dying Dreamer website is a visual presentation of research work in progress. The site feature... more The Dying Dreamer website is a visual presentation of research work in progress. The site features active illustrations that allow for interpretation in a spatial context. These illustrations, in making and as presentation, are analytical collages, some created from a model of the mansion as described in the novel then distorted as the narrative take leaps in space and time. Link to online work-in-progress: http://www.arch.kth.se/~zimm/
Joris-Karl Huysmans published the novel A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884, at a stylistic turnin... more Joris-Karl Huysmans published the novel A Rebours (Against Nature) in 1884, at a stylistic turning point between naturalism and mysticism in his writing career. This interlude work comprises, in an unsurpassed way, the essence of decadence and symbolist aesthetisism. Against Nature has provided my work with a scope of ideas and examples of social and sensory conditions, artificial creations, hyperaesthetic configurations and synesthetic instruments, all aimed at supporting the inner world of imagination of the main character of the novel, Baron Des Esseintes. Physical space and architecture in Huysmans’ text are means to augment and redirect perception. The narrative space and time shift between three main narrative modus, identified as present space (the actual physical location of the body in the mansion), revived space (spaces restored from memory), and evoked space (spaces conjured up from stimuli, as art or smells, a dream state of mind). The Baron is striving for an alternativ...
I am also very grateful to all the helpful staff at the KTH School of Architecture, whose efforts... more I am also very grateful to all the helpful staff at the KTH School of Architecture, whose efforts range from administrational support to serving capricious computers. In the last few weeks of intense work, Staffan Lundgren at Axl Books made an offer as unexpected as it was welcome, to publish this thesis. I very much appreciate his brave enterprise and immense patience and support in this project. I am grateful to Alan Gibson who has been very helpful with last minute proofreading. My most beloved ones; my beautiful sister Tomasine, my mother Kim, my father Bengt and my grandmother Karin, are never far away and always helpful, supportive, full of energy and joy, in anything from accommodating the cats to stirring up a good stew and a good laugh, thank you for everything. Lastly; closest to my heart, Peter, for your brightness and glow, where I always want to be, and Joel, my best co-driver and most trusted swordsman. Finally, my greatest debt of gratitude is to Peter who has put so much skill, time and energy into the graphic design of this thesis, in the process of shaping it into the book in your hand. Here is where all the work put into this work, by all contributors, really matters-as it materialises. Enjoy! The plot is an invitation into a story. The plot offers entry to narrative space, structuring desire into a forward motion through the text. The plot is the instrument for navigation and organisation of any linear storytelling. As architecture aspires to organise space in time, the plot seeks to create meaning and order in narrative space and time. A significant semantic leap unites the dictionary definition of the modest bean plot to the great machinery of conspiracy. The ontological range from the cemetery plot to the control-instrument of the map is tantalising. It provides structure and progression in fiction, enabling the author to weave a web of intrigues and the reader to navigate the network of a story. In physical reality, the plot is a virtual instrument that brings together the field and its governing plan. To plot is to make a plan, map, or diagram of an existing object, as a portion of the earth's surface, or a building. 1 The plot signifies the measured piece of land, the planning or drawing to lay this down on a map, and
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