Vertigo 2011

This shelter is a challenge to the architectural conventions. Rather than promising comfort and reassurance, the design encourages users to embrace the uneasy. It is an exploration into the interplay of sensation and space, challenging its occupants to confront feelings of vertigo, dizziness, and claustrophobia—emotions rarely courted in conventional design. It is architecture as provocation, a space where the physical and the emotional are inseparably bound.

The shelter’s physical presence is defined by its verticality—a series of steel facade panels set upon a skeletal framework of columns soaring six meters into the air. This exaggerated height delivers an immediate sense of scale, dwarfing the human body and introducing an element of awe tinged with trepidation. The vertical columns, standing rigid and unyielding, serve as the shelter’s backbone.