Date of Award
Spring 5-31-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Department
Architecture
First Advisor
Kyna Leski
Second Advisor
Micheal Kubo
Abstract
This thesis investigates the architectural potential of thresholds as spaces of psychological and metaphysical transformation, positioning the edge not as a boundary but as a generative spatial condition. Drawing upon Carl Jung’s conception of dream architecture as a symbolic map of the self, the project proposes a nonlinear exploration of architecture through layered references that operate across metaphysical scales. The house becomes a medium through which the liminal is made tangible, a temporal and spatial construct that blurs the binary oppositions of life and death, memory and forgetting, reason and absurdity, consciousness and the unconscious.
The project conceptualizes architecture as a narrative and ritual device, in which thresholds serve both as literal passages and metamorphic transformations. My work proposes a process driven framework for engaging space as an active agent in the journey of the self, offering architecture as a site of encounter, reflection, and becoming.
Recommended Citation
Ferrao, Gyles Jose Antonio, "the house at the end of time" (2025). Masters Theses. 1448.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1448
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