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This porous structure called the Hypnosis Chamber, was installed in Modern Art Museum of Paris in 2005, by an architecture firm R&Sie(n). Their focus is on exploring the relationship between architecture, context and human.

“Urban form no longer depends on the arbitrary decisions or control over its emergence exercised by a few, but rather the ensemble of its individual contingencies.”

The firm explains the thought behind their theoretical computational design project, “I’ve heard about…,” which has become the motif for the subsequent Hypnosis room.

The Hypnosis chamber is to be experienced from the inside as a cognitive room. The vocal recordings makes the inhabitant indulge in a “wake up dream,” in which one becomes no longer human but an organic part of the chamber.

Honestly, there are a lot of study to be done in order to fully understand this work. However, what I took from it was the sense of movement into a new form of formlessness which post-modern, post-capitalism society might lead to.  The hypnosis chamber is truly inspiring of the fact that spaces we inhibit no longer acknowledge us as separate, dominant beings but as an integral part of architecture, as to say the structure is not complete without us being in there.

Also, the nature of the structure provokes what other forms would be only waiting to be created with the aid of computation. The limit is constantly being extended into the future.