Intersections is an experimental studio in the Master’s program at the Department of Architecture in Delft University of Technology. Questioning the temporal and physical limitation of the object-oriented approaches, the studio focuses on the speculative design practices. In Spring 2020, we focused on the Biennial’s theme, “What do we have in common?” Run under the limitations imposed by the global pandemic, we also questioned the modes of cultural production and consumption within the discipline of architecture. In this respect, the 17 projects presented here explored not only the Academy City and Tbilisi but also the different modalities of biennial and the architectural project as spatio-temporal constructs.@en

The term cinematic is usually attributed to cities. Both cinema and metropolis, the city par excellence, have a common lineage interwoven to each other. Their visual deposit can be easily recalled from our memories in frames: Frames of shots, movements, stills… Yet, how relates architecture, which also operates by framing, to the concept of cinematic at its own level? How architectural imagery could be re-assembled in cinematic terms? The agency of representation in architecture includes bidirectional projective machinery; it captures the material environment and projects onto it. Similarly cinema operates in both directions as a projective agent of our realities, feelings, inner and external worlds. The terms, framing and deframing are singled out to highlight the peculiar condition of architectural drawings’ connection to the filmic imagery. Therefore, the focus is kept on framing as one of the formative elements in cinematic practices of space.@en