Translating Time: Confronting Memory In Architecture

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Translating Time: Confronting Memory In Architecture

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2021

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title: Translating Time: Confronting Memory In Architecture

creator: Sarah Jane Young

subject: Architecture and time; Architecture and memory; Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922; Architecture, Human aspects; Architectural drawing

description: The people who inhabit architecture bring with them their own memories and associations that influence the way they experience a space. Capturing this phenomenon is difficult, as it is something that is not physically seen, but rather, deeply felt. Marcel Proust explores these ideas in his novel Swann’s Way, depicting throughnarrative such universal, layered experiences of time. This thesis explores, in turn, how such experiences may be captured and translated into an architectural experience. By extracting andanalyzing four moments from “Overture”, the first chapter of Proust’s work, key elements of human perception of time have been abstracted into a series of drawings. Each of these momentsfollows a different form of remembrance, and suggests how the memory of the occupant, when drawn, becomes spatial. These translations do not portray a static, defined architecture, but suggest a mutability, to reflect both the way that we perceive memories, and the passage of time. This mutability dissolves any curated architectural experience, allowing the occupant to create one instead. By representing an experience of time and memory through drawing, we approach - never reaching - a universal psychological experience of architecture.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2021

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