Name: Vertigo 2011
Category: Shelter
Status: Concept
Location: Liverpool, UK
Vertigo 2011
This architectural study of sensation, perception, and materiality gives rise to structure that not only provide shelter but also provoke powerful psychological responses. The shelter described here 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.
Through the calculated use of material, structural elements, and environmental forces, this shelter becomes an immersive experience, a physical and psychological journey for the user. It transforms discomfort into a profound, unforgettable experience. In this way, the shelter transcends its utilitarian origins, becoming a space of exploration, introspection, and, ultimately, revelation.
As a user enters the shelter, they are immediately confronted with a shift in scale and atmosphere. Steel, wind, and light are the primary tools, manipulated to evoke a specific spectrum of emotion. The architecture is less a static structure and more a dynamic system, continually shaped by the forces that animate it.
The steel panels, left to weather and age, develop a patina that further enhances their tactile and visual complexity. The wind, unpredictable and ever-changing, ensures that each experience of the shelter is unique—a composition of sound and movement that is never the same twice.
