Recontextualize reality

“Recontextualize Reality” is a design exploration into untapped possibilities of architecture influencing how people perceive their environment and their reality. Typically, architecture expresses perceptual conditions through environments, experiences, and memories that provide people with personal vantages of self and others. This project will create spatial narratives and perspectives by synthesizing these three frameworks together into a “Museum of Perception.” This museum will utilize narrative structures, specifically foreshadowing and recontextualization, to frame a sequence of experiences that engage people in an overlapping journey of discovery and realization. The “Museum of Perception” will have art galleries and museum services that provide a familiar museum landscape, but the essential experience is the realization of these narrative techniques within the arrangements of space. Because of this, the most fascinating value of this project is the return visit. When the nature of overlapping impressions becomes clear, the visitors will experience a recontextualized reality. Thus, the “Museum of Perception” is an architectural experience that creates a richer understanding of perspective and perception of self and the world.