The research begins with an observation from the student’s previous exploration in a choreographic method of design – by using their body as a spatial drawing instrument, the planar conditioning of its bodily knowledge was noticed. To transgress this horizon(t)al framework, Bodies on Air physically posits the student’s body as the ‘degree zero of spatiality’ and explores embodied experience of flying; using a series of performance-experiments to speculate what makes it feel like flying and what does the altered spatial experience potentially reveal and afford architecturally.

Manifested in the surrealist context of Brussels as a pharmacy and an urban flying club, the architectural proposal lies in the impossibility of the desire to fly and the framing of that irreconcilability. The exploration addresses the anisotropic nature of my performance-experiments through choreographing the altered body-world relations as well as the altered interactions between the bodies. By using physical and digital tools, it stages and plays with spatial perception across a magnitude of scales, in the attempt to materialise the world that my body experienced in the air.