Project
Research Project: Inhabitable Fictions
Description
Inhabitable Fictions is an ongoing research inquiry where Karsten Huneck & Bernd Truempler (KHBT) are challenging conventional thinking to find new architectural opportunities. The primary focus is to understand the true essence of the space that a project will inhabit, a process often initiated by a direct visit to the site. The perception of the space aims to go beyond what is evident and physically visible in order to transcend this into a design methodology. A narrative approach is chosen to let spaces tell stories and give new answers to the question of what a place is trying to tell us. Openness is paramount for KHBT's thinking and their design practice which also leads to close collaborations with other disciplines, ranging from visual and performing arts to
technology as well as making and crafting in order to create spaces that inspire and take
people along journeys of discovery.
Inhabitable Fictions follows a methodology that explores the notion of spatial design through a hybrid method of “thinking and not thinking” (Creed, 2011): “thinking” acts as a metaphor for a systematic and analytical approach that follows more practical and functional rules and is opposed to “not thinking,” which explores the intuitive mode of sensing and imagining ways of creating spaces that follow more hidden prescribed conditions of the existing.
KHBT's research aim is also to give an insight into this specific methodology of design practice by studying and analysing spatial works that are developed by different practitioners that follow similar principles.