Phantom City
Cognitive Self-storage Center

Architecture, the meta-language of lines, creates an endless grid in space and turns into a system of ever-changing ‘(meta)-physical spaces’ in the infinity that can be defined through the matrix of syntax. In this concern, how the architecture of mind surpassing its liminal presence as the dematerialization becomes higher and higher, would be if it was created by imagination where the grid accepted as the universe that comprises of compressed time. As an attempt of an interdisciplinary theoretical approach to architecture, which is regarded as a poetic composition of real and perceptual collectivity, the model for the ideal city of mind is to be explored as a microcosmic reflection. While the ‘cognitive side of architecture’ accessed by running the mind is to be discovered, time is accepted as a ‘constructed space’ that surpasses past, present, and future in its compressed existence and the collection of concepts linked to philosophic and psychological notions are to gain metaphorical meanings for the elements of architecture and nature according to the subjective perceptions of the mind. In this regard, Phantom City is to be designed as a Cognitive Self-Storage Center that is an allegorical realm where the spectators, who are the nomads searching for their individualism, are to become a part of the city where is always anachronistic to them, and the minds of the nomads are to turn to be the land in search of  Neverland.

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