This project takes place in Soho. Going there gives you a strange feeling of freedom. Really, you have the strong idea that you can do whatever you want. We tried to understand this feeling. We tried to figure out how Soho plays with our desires. Sometimes in Soho you can be shocked by some sexshop windows, and at the same time be excited by it. You can feel excited because you can do something you are not used to or not allowed to. And suddenly you can break the rules, feel free and do whatever you want. Suddenly, your desires become more important than a good ethic. You enter in the libertine world in a philosophic meaning. From this observation, we identified a very strong subculture which is based on desire. People that see their carnal pleasure with a freedom that bypasses, or surpasses and sometimes transcends the boundaries of moral bourgeois conventions, thus substracting to human moral the strict religious/social authority.The project is an ironic proposition giving a religious identity to our sexual activities, to sacralize pleasure while condamning it, thus creating both an uncertainty and an increased pleasure in transgressing it.Our project is a kind of sex temple, reacting and evolving through our desire.The best reference we have for this kind of behaviour is Adam and Eve. The first humans on earth but also and especially, they are the first libertins in the meaning that they sucombed to their pleasure : the apple.This project highlights this unparalleled moment of pleasure. The time right before you take the apple, just before you cross the limit.
From these observations starts a design : an evolving structure which can change its shape and densify to the contact of our desires. But this interactivity is also in the other side : built spaces can arouse desire and then set off a new cycle. This evolution is made possible by the use of a maleable material. The wax gives the ability to dematerialize a space to materialize another one. It also gives the feeling of merging with the bodies by a game of colors an textures. The wax brings another dimension to this idea of desire with the notion of seen and unseen thanks to it light porosity. This process is materialized by a wax printer creature which is the result of physical tests and of our first researches on the idea of an intelligent and interactive creature.The temple of desire becomes a physical interactive experience oscilating between intimate and intimidating spaces through specific spatial organizations. The alcoves are very intimate and instinctives. Close to the body, as your mother’s woom. Then you move and reach another world : huge spaces giving the strange feeling of being naked in a gothic cathedral.These spaces are evolving according to human activity : it densifies with the affluence and is disconstructed gradually to let a very empty space.