"Inaccurate Reading: Book as House" by Oliver Ansell
25 Princelet Street, an abandoned Georgian townhouse in Spitalfields, is reimagined as a library of 'inaccurate reading', kept by a custodian residing in the attic. Spaces are reorganised to comprise living quarters, an archive, and common room, with vertical vaults traversing and puncturing existing building fabric, utilising architectural discrepancies to frame new readings of space. Each space is to be denoted as a unique character in the reading of the house as book, with architectural qualities lending personal disposition. Proposed routes through trace journeys as if plot lines, devised from narratives of the site.
‘Inaccurate Reading’ describes a personal comprehension of space, distorted by bias and experience, legible whilst open to interpretation. Drawing is guided by narration, allowing for both an interpretative process considering plot, character, and the voice of buildings, and a generative process that proposes the device of story-telling as a design mechanism for programme, content and materialisation.
Inaccurate Reading: Book as House
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