Palimpsest  
/ˈpalɪm(p)sɛst/

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing / something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.

Oxford Dictionary

A motel is a place of the one-night stand where for a short moment, you share space and objects that belonged to others, space and objects full of many stories. The room becomes the witness of one’s presence.

With this immersion in a motel room, where traces of objects from different stories merge, the user can experience and question the motel room and imagine a space where there is no rewriting of stories but one continuous story. The experience amounts to entering a detective fiction, where we let the objects’ post-performative traces tell us a story.

The traces of the objects were simulated with body movement captured with a motion capture body suit, and the space was explored in virtual space through VR Headset.



INSTALLATION I. CHAUME SUBLIME.
        FESTIVAL DES ARCHITECTURES VIVES. MONTPELLIER, FR. 2025.

    KITCHEN I. KITCHEN COSMOS.
        DREAM KITCHEN. COMPETITION ENTRY PERSPEKTIVE. 2024.

  • DIPLOMA II. SPACE AS EMBODIED SELF.
  •            MASTER THESIS SUPERVISED BY UNIV. PROF. ARCH.DI .K. ASTE ./STUDIO3. 2021.





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