Perspectival Episode / Spatial Enigma Part 2 Project 2020 Declan Davis Queen's University Belfast | UK This thesis seizes perspective drawing system as a device for spatial genesis. I acknowledge Perspective is not reality; it is a drawing method which allows a depiction of a desired orchestrated view rather than what is ‘true’. Perspective drawings create a fiction which offers a unique way of seeing the world. The drawings you see are not just useful forms of representation, each image acts as an autonomous opportunity for discovery and a valuable method of drawn research. The brief was for a Hotel on an infill site within Belfast city centre, while re-establishing a pedestrian entryway through the city block. Both brief and site serve the thematic enquiry on ‘episode’: the sequential perception of discreet moments, and their embodied enigma: what is absent, what is around the next corner? This project exploits neglected urban space, embracing unconventional spatial conditions. The colliding geometries, limited light and unusual proportions of the site generated the need for a flexible building. Timber construction provides this flexibility, allowing a disassociation between thickness and materiality. Games are played with depth, reflection and the obscured view, in both the spatial qualities of the proposal and the drawn work itself. Tutor(s)