The briefing was to create a room (or more precisely a cube with the measurements 2.5m x 2.5m) with a perverse atmosphere. As part of our research, we looked up the latin word “perversio” and found that it means converse, or reverse. So, if a room is defined by the space between its four walls, a perverse approach would be to completely fill this area.

In three labour-intensive days we constructed a wooden frame and wrapped it with clingfilm. A narrow slit served as the entrance, but a sheet of clingfilm suspended from the ceiling ensured that the door closed quickly. That enabled us to fill the entire space with smoke from a fog machine. The effect was impressive: when viewed from the outside, the cube appeared to be a solid, white body.

Inside the cube, the experience was exactly as we had hoped. As a result of the smoke, the walls became invisible to people on the inside looking out – it was as if the cube’s boundaries had disappeared.

TEAM: Katarzyna Bodziak, Stefan Bührer, Irene Kasjanenko under the supervision of Prof. Holder and Prof. Ziegler (HfT Stuttgart, BA Interior Architecture)