In this project, Voltaire’s Candide: or, The Optimist, has acted as a proxy for architecture to discover spatial potentials latent in literary works. The work presented here poses two questions. One question is discursive: how could architecture utilize literature as a representation of collective cultural memory and bring distant history into closer proximity? The other question is disciplinary: how could techniques of representation be repurposed to spatialize and materialize narratives, instead of merely visualizing them? This project translates a story into architectural drawings and spatial experiences via the making of an exhibition that mobilizes the spectator throughout two distinct rooms.

在这个项目中，伏尔泰的《老实人：或乐观主义者》充当了建筑的代理，以发现文学作品中潜在的空间潜力。这里介绍的工作提出了两个问题。一个问题是散漫的：建筑如何利用文学作为集体文化记忆的表现，并将遥远的历史拉近？另一个问题是纪律性的：如何将表现技术重新用于空间化和物化叙事，而不是仅仅将它们可视化？该项目通过制作一个展览，将观众调动到两个不同的房间，将故事转化为建筑图纸和空间体验。