"where stones change themselves in light through architecture, and architecture exists because of light"

Unit H seeks to explore an architecture of the senses; an architecture of human experience that examines the inner language of buildings, of perception, dreams and imagination.

We are interested in exploring the intangible within the tangible, the atmospheric and ephemeral within the tactile and tectonic.

The focus of our investigation is the city of Venice and its dwindling inhabitants. We explore the notion of Venice as a built landscape, a tapestry of interwoven layers, containing monumental past architectures, but also everyday lives and domestic rituals.

The unit encourages the study of processes of use within an architectural experience that may begin to suggest an immaterial/intangible architecture within built form. This year the unit focused on the notion of the embodiment of light within built form and in particular the palpable presence of Venetian light referred to as Lume Materiale.