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The Morrison Motel

[2012]

︎︎︎ 2nd year B.Arch - Architecture Design Project
︎︎︎ Studio Tutors: Mangesh Jadhav, Shirish Joshi, Simon Samuel, Monish Talpade.
︎︎︎ Brief: To select an Artist and design a House for him/her which best represents their personality.

 
I chose Jim Morrison an American singer, songwriter and a poet best remembered as the lead singer of The doors. Due to his lyrics, wild personality and performances, he is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history. Morrison was a Dionysian, he believed in chaos and had Rebellious traits. He was a heavy drinker and a drug addict. He wrote spoken word poetry, and considered everyone as slaves and himself as the Lizard King. He considered himself as a shaman, a healer of the community. And was also fascinated by the idea of death. He died at the age of 27 with probably heroine overdose, but the exact cause of death is still disputed. So the question is, How would Jim’s Morrison’s house be?








A Facade Full of Doors - A Direct literal reference for his band ‘The Doors’, which also in effect creates a sense of confusion: ‘’How does one enter the house which has so many doors?’’ Its the same difficulty or inaccessibility one feels while approaching someone as complex as Jim. "How does one enter into his mind?" A Desert Inside - As one enters the house, one is in the central court which is filled with piles of sand, reminiscent of the desert, which was Jim’s inspiration, his fear and his love. A place full of serpents, and as expanded as his mind would be, after a trip of Acid. To the south, lies a weirdly amusing room, with trampolines to jump on, and slides opening up into the rivulet beside the site. Actually, Jim would use this room as his Toilet, as he would jump on the trampoline while peeing on the slides which would then become drains. A huge dark pathway Marking the dark sceptic horror nature of the journey. Shouting its presence to the outside. A Sea in the sky - A Horizon pool to have a bath in the open, on the top. A jamming area behind the huge dominating wall, properly hiding the band members, diminishing their existence in front of Jim A healing fire - For practicing Shamanic rituals and ecstatic dancing. A room of poetry - Marking the death of the performer, and the immortality of the poet. A secret unexpected underwater entrance to the house. A bedroom that is a stage - To sleep in the open and be a spectacle to the world by just standing on the bed.