Improbable Architectures | A self-quest in Distracted Creativity

This research focuses on a paradoxical attempt in designing. It is about a practical inference on distraction through experiments. It aims to emerge architectures of 'un-thought' by obscuring the boundaries of architectural task. Here, distraction, disguised as text, meets the architect as the sole input of the design. This is an unbounded, non-structured text that leads to the imaginary. The text triggers hidden connections of non-conscious and 'un-thought'. Throughout the process, the architect becomes the distracted-being. Distracted creativity therefore reconstructs the architect and the architectural space that they create, together. The main product of the various experiments in this research is a booklet. It summarises and describes my adventurous pursuit of a role for the architect as a distracted being, and in doing so it also seeks to expose the limitations of the metamorphosis of written text into architectural space. Traces of these non-conscious elements – various sketches, drawings and writings – are embedded in the booklet. Then the final outputs of the experiment are the self-portraits, which are the depictions of the wild realms of Improbable Architectures.