Sleep of Reason

As an exercise in Studio 9, we were given a fictional character and were asked to design a fictitious world for him/her. The character assigned to me was the Tear Warmer who took pleasure in sadness. The brief developed by me involved him being a devotee of the goddess of sorrow. And watched dramas for artificial sadness. The site was chosen in Iceland as it is one of the happiest countries in the world. Because of which he has to go seeking for manufactured sadness. The exercise involved designing a home for the character and a temple of goddess of sorrow in the water. The character stays in the house of setting sun during the summer and goes to the temple during the winter to avoid serotonin and feel morose.

The House of the Setting Sun

Longitudinal Section
Longitudinal Section
Interior View
Interior View
The Tear Warmer lives for 6 months of the year underwater avoiding sun light. Temple was built on similar language as the house. The temple’s form is an inverted tapering structure which symbolizes sorrow as opposed to the traditional temples symbolizing hope. The temple is semi submerged in water and is situated off the shores of Reykjavik. It has a central spire with space for various gods in paganism. The Tear Warmer pays his tribute to all the gods before he gets to the Goddess of Sorrow at the bottom most space of the temple, where he has a room along with a shrine of the goddess.

The Temple of Goddess of Sorrow

Central Spire
Central Spire
Spiral Staircase
Spiral Staircase

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