CASE I – SPATIAL SNAPSHOT / Pärnu Mud Baths

ARTICLE

Reflections 16 – Faculteit Architectuur – KU Leuven
6th edition of Reflections on RTS (the Sint-Lucas Research Training Sessions)
2012 Brussels/Ghent, Belgium

Abstract:

My research project deals with the questions deriving from the transformation of buildings and the metamorphosis of the space through the new housing functions. I use the human senses to analyze the spatial qualities and meanings of these spaces, mapping my design research using different tools such as illumination and interviewing different people who act as narrators, zooming in the context and location of the building, etc.

In order to understand and find my personal connections with the architecture of the building, my strategy as an interior architect is to prepare site-specific projects within the abandoned buildings, using the spaces they contain as a lab. The exhibitions I create are my spatial snapshots of the present moment, focused on awakening spatial emotions and seeking different values. In art and science creativity is the intersection and I am creating different new atmosphere.

Read the full essay here: www.arch.kuleuven.be/reflections16

SITE-SPECIFIC EXHIBITION

Pärnu Mud Baths – site-specific exhibition project Spatial Snapshot / Ruumiline stoppkaader (Pärnu, 2011) by Tüüne-Kristin Vaikla in collaboration with Siim Porila (light), Urmo Vaikla (film), Ingel Vaikla (photo)

Movies:

Spatial Snapshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK9cF1CPDm8

Interviews about Pärnu Mud Baths – users
https://vimeo.com/113144923

Interviews about Pärnu Mud Baths – developes
https://vimeo.com/113144922

Interviews about Pärnu Mud Baths – citizens
https://vimeo.com/113144921

Interviews about Pärnu Mud Baths – historians
https://vimeo.com/113142352

Interviews about Pärnu Mud Baths – architects
https://vimeo.com/113081574