This narrative panorama is the intricate story of three “interiéurs” and their three auteurs: Sigmund Freud's study in Vienna which is defined as the "House of the Mind", Ludwig Wittgenstein's Stonborough House in Vienna a.k.a. the "Number House", and Pierre Chareau's Maison de verre, the "Glass House".
The project was published on issue 938 (July-August 2010) on Domus Magazine and it was intended as the graphic complement of an article by architect Italo Rota about three interior designs «derived from the mind and not from the hand».
The research side in this project mostly consisted in a sort of dramatization of Rota’s interpretation of the three stories. But a lot of work was done also in the collection of the needed documentation about the houses and the protagonists who, in a lot of ways, were gravitating towards Freud, Wittgenstein, Chareau and the houses themselves. But, maybe, the greatest effort in the making of this visualization has been put into drafting a network of connections between all the elements mentioned above. You can have a look at it below.
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CREDITS
Words
«Brain Houses: Three 'Intérieurs' Stories»
Italo Rota
Creative Direction
Michele Graffieti
Information Design
Michele Graffieti
Scientific Coordination
Paolo Ciuccarelli, DensityDesign