Architecture in Sleep Condition Part 2 Project 2019 Rombout Peeters Catholic University of Leuven | Belgium A spatial-explorative research into architecture that goes into hibernation or chronic ‘stand-by mode’, and the importance of the transition ritual.Thinking about buildings as nothing more than a collection of ‘voids’ attracts my attention. Or anticipating this by taking into account an inevitable turnaround in use when designing. If architecture is conceived as something that only becomes ‘something’ through the presence of people, what is then this ‘nothing’ that is left behind when precisely this presence is lacking? What meaning can a building still convey in a local context if architecture takes a break and briefly disposes of all human life? How do we approach this and in what ways does it still appeal to our senses? Or if the non-active phase is a periodical given, continuously interspersed with active periods, can the ‘emptiness’ just become more meaningful?A series of fragments are created, conveying two types of architecture, drawing on the viewer’s imagination to combine them in any way, creating ‘a possible architecture’. All of them were built in a 1/1 scale and presented in pairs, in dialogue with each other. They are developed in relation to earlier research on closing off/opening up of architecture and also with a lot of attention for detailing and the scale and touch of the human hand. Tutor(s) Carl Bourgeois Hugo Vanneste