Illusionary Spaces.

what do you see when you look at a space? as the Adelbert Ames’ room taught us, surprisingly, sometimes what we see could be quite different from what it really is, especially if we look at it with one eye, consistently with the theoretical principles of the perspective projection; the origin of this phenomenon lies on a basic ‘defect’, namely the lack of bijectivity between the projected image and the objects when a single viewpoint is working; an infinite number of three-dimensional perspective spaces can be then realized, that are perceptually equivalent, either to the image or to the real object; these spaces are better known as ‘distorted’ or ‘anamorphic’ spaces; among the masterpieces in this field we could mention the apse of the church of Santa Maria Presso San Satiro by Donato Bramante in Milan, the Palazzo Spada’s Gallery by Francesco Borromini in Rome and many other examples; in this exhibition some projects of illusionary spaces designed by master students in Architecture are presented, as an educational experience focusing on the hidden face of the evidence.