Contemporary borderlines transcend the physical; they have become cognitive and internalized. The virtual cities, perceptually negotiated, form the basis of the Reciprocating-City. The project explores the possibilities to inhabit this ¬in-between-space.

Occurring at the convergence of two cities, the site is a constructed hallucination, oscillating along the spatial axis of a photographic image and a lived occurrence: between Venice and Vancouver.

The compression of an image space onto an experiential space creates a third space, a meta-space. Through techniques of digital projection, two-dimensional images convulse into the third dimension - folding, wrapping, and becoming visceral. The abstraction of these constructs delays orientation, invoking imaginary landscapes that invite architectural interpretation.

The pavilion is not a container of space, but an interface. The process of generating the pavilion proposal included a method of "opening a door" into the surface of the image. The door exists not only as a threshold between two spaces but becomes a space in itself.

The project chooses to construct a journey at the intersection of a paradox: the parallax between the tactility of physical space and the domain of the image.

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