VOIDSPACE
BA Thesis in Interior Design
2025
Voidspace transforms the abandoned Galeazze shipyards in Venice's Arsenale into a contemplative device for temporal decompression. The project operates through subtraction, embracing the Japanese concept of Ma, active void, to create spatial conditions that slow perception and invite presence. Four minimal interventions structure the experience: a timber path, an open platform, a sky-reflecting pavilion, and a framed passage through rhythmic thresholds that amplify light, water, and atmospheric shifts.
The materiality works as a temporal witness. Oxidizing larch planks and weathered stone debris intensify the dialogue between industrial memory and continuous transformation, making time itself visible through surface evolution. These materials absorb change, creating a space where decay becomes part of the narrative and impermanence shapes perception.
In a society dominated by acceleration and digital overstimulation, Voidspace offers an architecture of pause. It responds to Byung-Chul Han's society of tiredness by reclaiming boredom as generative tool. The interventions create no predetermined function. They exist to be crossed, inhabited, and experienced in their essence, allowing users to rediscover a slower, more layered relationship with space.
The project activates latent potential within the Venetian ruins. Each element: the sound of footsteps on timber, the sky framed by an oculus, the water reflecting movement, turns the site into a laboratory for new temporalities. Space becomes a field of experience where contemplation, memory, and presence converge.
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