Architecture through narration

The use of text to inspire architecture and spatial configurations is the first step or the obvious possibility if we face the statement "architecture through narration".
At the first glance, narrative description of space can be a vehicle to generate another space. The language of words can stimulate the language of space.

But the power of narrative is much more suggestive, evocative and multipurpose. During the last 10 years in the Bartlett have appeared some projects that in one sense of another uses narrative as a device to generate architecture.

As Jonathan Hill and Jane Rendell explain in the publication "Bartlett Design: Speculating with Architecture", narrative has two sides that conduct architecture, two processes " that are both interpretative, that allows us to consider the plot, character, voice and tone of the building, and generative, that propose the device of story-telling as a way of suggesting the design of the programme, content and materialisation in architecture"

Among the different projects which deal with narrative in architecture combining drawing and writings, Hill and Rendell summarise various "interconected themes:

- An articulation of interactive relationship between writing and design
- An exploration of the materiality of visio-spatial processes which combine written and drawn text.
- A development of the particular spatial and architectural qualities of story-telling
- A blending of personal and academic writing styles to develop multiple voices and different subject positions
- An investigation of how physical journeys through architectural spaces work in dialogue with changes in phychis and emotional states.
- An examination of how responses to specific sites can pattern the form as well as the content of text generating new genres for architectural writing based on letters, diaries, guidebooks, (auto)biographies and travelogues"