Thursday 30 September 2010

"Architecture Where the Desire May Live: Orchid's Collector Chamber in Subterranean Cave"







This project questions whether the existence of an aesthetic desire can trigger a desire to create something beyond the object or image itself. This idea is investigated through the metaphor of the orchid, an aesthetically beautiful object that is known to provoke responses of obsession and desire. It is supposed that through this, we may find a place where the desire may live and learn what an architecture of desire could be.
The inspiration to construct a subterranean collector's chamber is the architecture of desire for the scientist and senior researcher from Kew Gardens. He has a passion for studying orchids and this desire for knowledge about the orchids is expressed through his work, collection and new discoveries about this living organism. The Scientist lost his own plants and has a desire for a place where he can store and collect orchids.

"The botanical complexity of orchids and their mutability makes them perhaps the most compelling and maddening of all collectible living things... To desire orchids is to have a desire that can never be fully requited. A collector who wants one of every orchid species will die before even coming close." (Orlean, 1995).



SITE:


Site master plan in Royston Town


Cave plan

Orchid's Collector Chamber



A_Entry to Cavernous Chamber


Atmospheric Revelation


Excessive Entrance




B_Light Testing Room


Light Podium


Podium Approach




C_Orchids Exhibition Space


Underground Exposition_1


Underground Exposition_2




D_Collector's Laboratory


Cloning chamber


Scientist Table




E_Cultivation zone


Orchids cultivation passage


Orchids intermission

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