Rashmi Katkar
The Art Hostel -A New Building for Instituto Cultural Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
Converging into digital Horizon
Art Hostel as thesis project combines the native Brazilian notions of spatial interpretations and the architectural implications of these notions. The fluid spaces in the environment of Brazil dissolve the idea of personal and collective. The notion is not completely redundant but is reflected in such a way to somehow merge both movements in a perfect coalescence. Thus, the changing reality of society into digital networking demands for change in his perspective and horizon.
Horizon, the notion of horizon as the view outside the window frame has changed into an unlimited and multiple choices of different worlds which open up with a window of internet and many other means of perpetual networks. Thus the user has an ability to project oneself and have an individual perspective on the idea of personal horizon. In the collective, for example a hostel, this idea becomes necessary to be explored in architecture. Horizon being a virtual and a continual dispersion of movement and an architectural plane of reflection, allows subtle changes in the impression of space. Therefore, the horizon is not just the plane of reference for the space but becomes the instrument to manipulate the space.