Artists’ Retreat

 

Design Fundamentals II, 2023

Instructor: Dr. Khodadadi

Location: Forest

Project Type: Academic / Artist Residency

Architect: Hasti Abbasi

Two artists — a writer and a musician — arrive in a quiet forest at the edge of the known world. They come not to escape, but to retreat; to leave behind the noise of what is, and begin building what could be.

The space is not just a shelter — it is a threshold: a soft line between silence and sound, memory and imagination, solitude and creation. Each corner is designed to hold a different kind of silence — the writer’s long pauses, the musician’s distant echoes.

Here, architecture doesn’t frame the forest — it dissolves into it. Nature becomes the co-author, the collaborator, the unseen third resident. In this place, time slows down, and other worlds begin.