Anahita Mohammadkhani

As a stranger to any city, we encounter observations that the city people themselves will not pick up on the daily basis. We act as an outsider, a voyeur to the city, its buildings, its inhabitants and the activities taking place. In this task, through a collection of intimate moments and exchanges of both human interaction and architecture within Amsterdam, I stumbled upon this moment of silence. A man who has just stepped out of the busy waterlooplein flea market and encounters a silent and peaceful moment on the front steps of Sant'Egidio church. He closes his eyes and endulges his mind with all the new information and spaces he just encountered, some of which he may have not come accross the previous time. However it is the boundaries and architecture that may have detoured his route, the human mind forms architecture that maybe even the architect may have not intended. This fragile man, against this great mass of architecture both come in the totalisation of  harmony in its time. I have embellished this CAD drawing with extracts of Michel De Certeau's text on the 'The Practice of Everyday Life' for further ellaboration on the context of this drawing.