Film without Story/Architecture without Use

In his Text "In Defense of Places", Wim Wenders talks about his way of directing a movie. A very special and interesting part is when he talks about developing the story of his films. For him the story is not the only driving force of a movie, so in his films it's not the story who finds the places and locations where he shoots his scenes, it's the places who tell the story.


According to this we are analyzing a similiar topic in Architecture: "Architecture without a Use"
There are a few examples in Architecture where the use and design follow different approaches or have even don't fit together. Like the Guggenheim in Bilbao or the Hundertwasserhaus.

We want to transform Wim Wenders approach to architecture. In his movies the places are developing the stories. We want to know whats happening when the places create the Architecture beyond recognition of the use. Will it be a buidling or a sculpture. Is it a hybrid or wouldn't you recognize it.

Capturing Energy

We want to capture those unseen energies which occupy and influence the cities. (Movements, Light, Wind, emotional, . . .)  We set up a time window in which we will analyze how those energies effect the cities. Depending on that our next step is to create storyboards for each energy. Overlapping this different Layers of energies allows a new visibility on cities which is shown in a compatible medium (collage, video,. . ).

A Sense of Place

In referrence to the Text of Wim Wenders "In Defense of Place", we want to use our sense of place. The goal is to visit places and capture the specific abilities (storytelling/guiding/emotional....) of those. Our Result will be shown in a map of sense.