The reproduction of architecture through visual media plays a key part in shaping our perception of built reality. Iconic images of buildings in film and photography provide a distinct and highly subjective representation of space and time that shapes our experience of architecture far beyond its physical confines. This process of mediation presents an amplified architectural reality that is entirely unique from that which is represented by the conventional plan, section, or axon. This project explores the power of narrative as a representational tool for reproducing hyperrealistic spatial environments.

In “Maison Vérité.” the story of one family living under the same roof over the course of a day is told through five subjective narratives, each with a different rendition of the same set of domestic spaces that they share.

The complete “form” of the house is never revealed throughout the films. Rather, the project deploys the narrative devices of cinema- scripts, scenography, montage sequences- to construct a series of fragmented scenes through the subjective lens of the house’s five inhabitants. The elements of the architecture- staircases, doorways, corridors, mirrors- reappear throughout the films as props that anchor the internal monologues of the house’s inhabitants, where formal and material attributes serve as proxies for familial conflicts and domestic anxieties. This piece explores the tenuous line between real and imagined spaces and invites the audience to read between those lines.

The truth about this house is that it is not real, but that does not make it any less capable...

even of murder...