THROUGH THE ILLUSION

Illusion is a distorted perception of reality, induced by the strong hope that our desires will come true. For instance, when there is something attractive that steadily draws us away from reality and projects us into a suspended dimension, like a daydream. In that moment, our desire can be so strong that it twists the state of things.

Through the illusion materializes the condition of being stuck between dreams and reality and the resulting state of progressive detachment.
Leading us through increasingly dense layers of iridescent fabric, the path through the Passatge Franquet becomes a journey from reality to illusion and then to the disillusion of returning to ordinary life.

THE AUTHORS

Irene Ginesi and Monica Sandulli are two young architects driven by different interests. As a team, however, they share the belief that the purpose of design is to bring out the character of places and foster the creation of unprecedented spatial relationships.

Irene studied at Università di Ferrara (Italy), ENSAM (Montpellier) and Escola da Cidade (São Paulo). She is currently attending for a Master’s in Architecure and Scenography at ENSA Paris-Belleville. She has worked with the architecture firms Inout (Ferrara), Ciclostile (Bologne) and Rousseau Dapelo (Paris).

Monica also studied at Università di Ferrara and Escola da Cidade. She recently completed an MA in Environmental Humanities at Università di Roma Tre. She is interested in urban design and in walking as a mode of action-research in the design process. She has worked with the architecture firms C+M (Naples) and T Spoon (Rome).