vive sees the world, and collects every piece of herself from Taipei, Taiwan.
Sara Shafiei
Magician’s Theatre: The design for a Magician’s theatre is located in the National Botanical Gardens in Rome. The project readdresses the sensuality and ornamental richness of the Italian baroque. Notions of magical illusion and geometric anamorphosis generate surgically constructed laser-cut models that describe the functional solution of the circulation, as well as the special complexity of this realm of projections, performances and illusions. The project convolutes structural and synthetic design criteria, in order to understand architecture in its 3D depth and ornamental richness. Within the flesh of anamorphic tectonics, elephants are made to disappear: Houdini’s favourite trick.
