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Maria Kobalyan

Maria Kobalyan

Los Angeles, CA, US

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BFA Thesis: Enigmatic Fields

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The prioritization of vision over other senses since the Renaissance led to decades of exploration of space and sight.   
Artists, filmmakers and set-designers have challenged our normative understanding of perspectival vision and offered alternative ways for us to engage space through vision. Our understanding of the unique properties of the visual sense: perspectival flatness (3D into 2D) via parallax, fore-shortening, and blind-spots offered us ways to explore the mental and physical seductive powers of space.

Architects and designers have been exploring the concept of space-time but have seldom exploited spatial ambiguity through the dynamic relativity between the mise-en-scene of architectural elements and body movement.
Perspectival flattening engenders concealed spaces.  These enigmatic fields give rise to opportunities to experiment:  asserting illicit programs that can reveal the hidden mental spaces of a culture. The Helsinki Stair in Finlandia Hall by Alvar Aalto will be the site of the first experiment. 

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Helsinki, FI
Additional Credits: Thesis Advisor: Annie Chu, FAIA

 
 Perspectival Flatness
Perspectival Flatness