Hiroshi Sugimoto, "Union City Drive-In, Union City," 1993

"Architecture exists in a different reality from our everyday life and pursuits. The quality of architecture does not lie in the sense of reality that it expresses, but in its capacity for awakening our imagination."Christian Norberg Schultz

Unit 11 is interested in exploring the capacity of architecture as both a sensual and material experience, and as a dynamic framework of occupancy and use.

la Cité de la Muette, in Drancy, Paris, is a housing estate and former second world war deportation camp. Built as an Ideal Garden City it is now a torn social and economic system. Students were asked to consider how through an architectural proposition this system could reboot and regenerate.

Unit 11 use film, photography, animation and motion graphics to generate, develop and represent architectural and spatial concepts. These time-based techniques allow us to explore experiential and narrative forms of spatial inquiry. We are interested in exploring the ways in which architectural space and film space combine, collide, inform and reconfigure one another. The unit's aim is to shift ideas away from the static and towards dynamics and the processes of use within spatial experience. We seek temporal, narrative architectures that use space, time, sound and materiality to communicate a relationship of human interaction.