STARLETTE
Young Architects Competitions - Summer 2018
Award: Finalist Mention
Team: Pedro Munarriz, Juan Manuel Gatica
Looking back, the past seems like a cloud, memories are disjointed and somehow they make sense. We can almost grasp them and feel its presence. ​The images of the Starlette almost feel like a peek inside of someone else’s memories and somehow reconnect with that feeling of another person. Such are the foundations of our project, for that, we ask ourselves:
How can we represent the feeling of a memory? ​
One can hardly have a definitive answer for that because memories are only experienced in retrospective and are fully subjective. But there are certain things that we can agree in regards with memories:
1. Memories are a diffused journey:
The exhibition as a path. Frosted panels of glass is the first material that convey the diffused nature of memories. The path must be deceiving by rotating the panels we achieve an infinite amount of reflections and levels of transparency which in turn, aids the project with a mystical atmosphere.
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2. Memories are moving​​​
We took the word “moving” in both senses, moving as something that conveys an specific feeling and moving as an action. Funny enough the very thing the starlets want to do is to be in moving pictures. ​
A Zoetrope! The very beginning of animation! It consist of a wheel with images glued to the inner walls and when spinning these would create the illusion of a moving picture. So as you walk by the exhibition, the middle panels set the rhythm for the central ones, with the images that tangled with one another sing a song in harmony of being a star.
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3. Memories are in the past​
Ultimately, the project ought to achieve certain level of melancholy when the user itself becomes the machine; the one that moves this Zoetrope. Within the intimacy of our minds, perhaps, the reflected self in a panel can trigger the idea that we are also part of this dream of the Starlette.
