Hidden Myths is a transgressive architectural manifestation. It is a symptom of and reaction to a larger phenomenon; a series of Infectious Voidscapes that can be found throughout the city of Mashhad, existing of sites in which all architectural forms of existence have been erased.
Hidden Myths activates the forgotten memories of one of these sites through a series of procedures, which create architectural elements that become programmatic constellations, that regenerate everyday life inside the Voidscape. An example of this is the element ‘Retaining Walls’, that with re-used steel sheet piling, outlines the site, creates new accessible depths within the site, and generates the basis for a new landscape within the city.
Hidden Myths’ procedures, elements, and constellations, together, create a landscape that it is simultaneously full and vacant, alive and provisional, and thus provoke a negotiation with the nature of the Voidscapes found in Mashhad, with the intention of uniting the people that reside, visit, and embody the city. It is through combining the religious cosmology of the site with everyday inhabitation, that slowly become apparent the invisible myths that are hidden within this Voidscape.
Hidden Myths marks the design phase of my graduation project, visit the research phase here: Hotel City
Part of MSc Graduation Studio Borders & Territories, TU Delft