The Horror of Impossible Architecture

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  @Spiritus-Gladius · 8 days ago

  I remember renovating a old house, with my dad. We discovered a hidden room underneath a stairwell. It was sealed shut, yet fully decorated, with furniture and all. It happens, sometimes.

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  @louispalermo9975 · 5 days ago

  As an architect, some of the drawings I made as an student kinda feel like this. Before my teachers got me into functionality and comfort, I had a tendency to design spaces through the lens of my neurodivergent needs, dead end spaces, long elongated corridors, some spaces had too much light others were designed with darkness as a comfort. <br><br>Mind you I was not designing horror houses, just what my own experiences and needs told me a home should have.

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  @ParajuIe · 8 days ago

  I think its quite interesting that many liminal spaces are based specifically around spaces that have a very specific use. An office building is mostly just a place to work, a pool is just a place to swim, and so on. What makes liminal spaces disconcerting it not always that there is something wrong with them, most of the time its simply the fact that they&apos;re empty, like the space is seen without its purpose.

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  @glubby3000 · 7 days ago

  as an ambulatory wheelchair user, it feels like my home, the buildings i go to and just the world in general stops being made for me right when i use my chair. i never really thought about it until you mentioned how weird it is when things aren&apos;t made for you.

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  @MaxPowerElectric · 8 days ago

  Often overlooked is The Shining (Kubrick adaptation). Hotel has impossible windows, hallways, overlapping rooms...

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  @WHTVRWHTVR · 7 days ago

  I recently heard about an older novel with impossible architecture: <br><br>The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay, 1922<br><br>In the novel, there’s a house with a staircase that exists only some of the time, and only to some people. The people who go up the staircase, and into one of the rooms it leads to, suddenly find themselves walking back down. Time has passed. Whatever happened at the top of the staircase, they can’t remember it. <br><br>It’s my next read for sure. I love this topic to death

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  @tinythistlewatches · 9 days ago

  HOUSE OF LEAVES MENTIONED there&apos;s no way that it wouldn&apos;t be honestly with this title but

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  @andrewt5896 · 8 days ago

  The thing I remember finding most unsettling about House of Leaves was how this thing was definitely not natural, but was also undeniably outside human capability for manufacture.

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  @jamesrule1338 · 7 days ago

  I once had a series of dreams about the last city on earth. The city was constantly being built and rebuilt, changing as people needed it to. Hallways in people&apos;s houses became alleyways between buildings. It was hard to tell if I was in a room, a courtyard, or a balcony. <br>The series of dreams ended, when I left the city and found a creature wandering the plains. And I knew that creature and things like it were the reasons why there was only one city left.

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  @kenbasil1996 · 7 days ago

  For those of us who have experienced chronic isolation against our will, resigned to one room that is not guaranteed safe, labyrinths and horror architecture hits dif. Love your video essays.

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  @ChakatSandwalker · 7 days ago

  In a house I lived in a few years ago, I suddenly had the thought that there was an empty space behind the vitrine (display cabinet) built one wall. &nbsp;I knew there used to be a chimney, and that there were bricks in the upper crawl space, but no other information. &nbsp;So I spent days measuring everything to draw up a floor plan, and discovered that there was indeed a small void space, probably where a fireplace used to be. &nbsp;It was totally not important to know this, but I found it fascinating that I had a little hidden spot that no one knew about or had seen for sixty or so years.

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  @Fujitahomaxi · 7 days ago

  Someone who puts this much effort into the making of a video in the age of AI slop should be applauded. Keep up the awesome work!

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