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Within our realm of excessive consumption, the post-orgy condition emerges as an exploration rooted in Jean Baudrillard's Essays on Extreme Phenomena. It encapsulates the contemporary challenge of reconciling our insatiable desires moulded by consumer culture, exposing the tantalising excess that precedes liberation.
Amidst Berlin's vibrant scene of counterculture and techno, we find a playground to challenge the tenets of capitalism. The hedonistic realm of club culture often leaves individuals saturated and overstimulated, yearning for a space to recalibrate and recover. It is in this context that decompression materialises: a primal landscape that immerses us in a progressively natural and sensory-specific environment, juxtaposing the artificiality of the nightclub.
With the objective of establishing connections with post-consumption ideology, the programme harnesses the expressive essence of techno subculture to depict hedonistic encounters under capitalism. Decompression emerges as a metaphoric landscape that follows the euphoric high of capitalism, nurturing a space for new socio-spatial typologies in a speculative post-consumption era.
The quarry-inspired framework explores material refinement, symbolizing the body's transition from nightclub to landscape through decompression.
Unveiling the gradual journey into a natural landscape, cutting through the sound and visual scape.
Perspective views within Decompression, where elements of sound and visual culture recede into isolation, preluding the vanishing point that emerges from the landscape upon exit.
The building carves out excavated spaces on the basement level, offering sonic experiences within the site's horizontal framework. Gradually emerging, it introduces bright, light-filled rooms near the surface.
Crafting a device in response to the post-orgy condition, exploring the realms of pleasure, intimacy, and the influence of capitalist affect.