Perfume museum
Perfume, Voronoi Regions and Architecture
Our theme consisted of creating a “perfume museum” at a site located in the vicinity of the Mogosoaia Palace. (I found it to be a very difficult site - history, tradition, nature etc. how to properly integrate a building in such a rich and precise context is a question that remains open.)
The project’s challenge was to transpose the notion of perfume in an architectural form. Wikipedia suggests many trails. Chevalier’s Dictionary of Symbols suggests some more. Balzac: “Tout parfum est une combinaison d’air et de lumiere.”; Hugo: “Le parfum est de la lumiere.”. Floral motifs, blobitecture, incense and religion, drugs - it was up to you to decide on how to visually speculate perfume.
I was fed up of the meanings and interpretations of perfume. Perfume nowadays is synthetic. Smell chemistry.
November 2007.