Venice, more than any other European city has an endlessly seductive charm, a projection of the familiar and yet unreal, a possibility of escaping reality through imagination and dreaming. This design project adopts a methodology involving the archival storage of hard data recoded from sleep cycles. It reinforces and focuses on an architecture which works independently and continuously over time, day and night, for user and architect. Through automated scripting and grasshopper algorithms, the celebration of the unconscious and conscious is collaged together as equals, a crematorium which is formed by the combination of both active psychoanalytic states. Over 18 weeks of sleep data was collected to create an independent island and extension to the island cemetery, Isola di San Michele.
Grasshopper was used to generate a three dimensional language and depiction of Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams (1899), the transformations distorting, condensing and displacing.
The project works with displays of translated data at multiple scales. These vary between patterns and recordings of light, deep and REM sleep in combination with waking periods.