“Everything it is possible to imagine can also exist. “

-The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter, p. 110

“Winnipeg, we negotiate the great white ways. The snow labyrinths.

Mazes of ectoplasm that determine our paths through our lives here.

We have little or no choice where we go, where we sleep, what we feel.”

- My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin

“All a dream, all a dream. I need to wake up. Keep my eyes open somehow. I need to get out of here.

Out of here! What if.... I film my way out of here?”

- My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin

...what if I build my way out of here?...

This thesis proposes an architectural fiction about a never before seen Winnipeg. The project began with Angela Carter’s novel, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, and the narrative was used to guide an exploration of my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. I was also further inspired by fellow Winnipegger Guy Maddin, and his film My Winnipeg. The design research semester began with a psychogeographical mapping of my personal territories of occupation within the city and has now led me to a series of meta-sites -- sites that do not necessarily fully or solely exist in the realm of the real or the fictive. The design thesis proposes the construction of a series of architectural fragments, or sets, to be situated in specific locations, currently being determined, within these meta-sites. These architectural fragments are intended to broadly examine the boundaries between fact and fiction, much like the space we inhabit within a novel or a film, that suspend us in a dream-like state of possibility. The new map of meta-sites constructed during the first semester, will now serve as the latent territory for further architectural interventions. Rather than working directly with the initial novel, these interventions will arise from the explorations of how Carter’s novel translates into my own architectural story of Winnipeg. The architectural interventions will form a new mythic chapter that I am situating as a postscript to Maddin’s My Winnipeg.

Tina GigliottiAdvisor: N. Subotincic

Carter, Angela. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Penguin Books: New York, 1972.Maddin, Guy, Director. My Winnipeg. Motion Picture. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Buffalo Gal Pictures, 2007.

The Eternal Vistas of Love The Meeting Place of Love and HungerEveryone Knows What the Night is For Trophy of a Hunter in the Forests of the Night The Key to the City Perpetual Motion

[top] psychogeographical maps for each simple

[below] the six architectural simples

“Jamais vu” directly translates to ‘never seen’ -- it also refers to the psychological phenomenon whereby one experiences an eerie sense of disconnect, or the unfamiliar,

in a situation where they rationally know things to be familiar.

Overlaying the six psychogeographical maps creates the seventh simple -- I Have Been Here Before. This new map of the latent city of Winnipeg is in search of a series of meta-sites which exist in the space between fiction and reality.

An Architectural FictionJamais vu Winnipeg