{"id":26115,"date":"2025-06-10T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=26115"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:11:46","slug":"fred-wilson-hendry-briars","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/en\/verkefni\/fred-wilson-hendry-briars\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Wilson Hendry-Briars"},"content":{"rendered":"<section style=\"--overlay-opacity: 0%; --overlay-bg: #000000;\" class=\"hero-section h1-lg\" >\n\t<div class=\"container animation-child-elements\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Fred Wilson Hendry-Briars<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<figure class=\"bg-visual\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lhi.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-05-07-at-15.26.376-1800x981.png\" class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n\t<section class=\"meta-info-section\"  >\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"meta-info animation-child-elements\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"intro-section\"  >\n\t<div class=\"container animation\">\n\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>HIDDEN WORLDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">THE ARCHITECTURE OF TALES: IMMERSIVE SPACES FOR ICELANDIC FOLKLORE<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"text-section txt-columns\"  >\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row animation-child-elements animation-bottom\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Folklore is an important part of Icelandic culture, history and identity, shaped by its unique landscape and rich traditions of storytelling. Tales of elves, trolls, and sea monsters are deeply embedded in the consciousness of the Icelandic people, offering a connection to the natural world and explanations of the unknown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Globally, folklore plays a crucial role in shaping cultural identities, connecting communities to their environment, and offering insights into society's values and beliefs. However, in a rapidly urbanizing world, this intangible cultural heritage risks into the background and ultimately dying out as stories and myths are no longer passed down through time orally. Thus, it is crucial to explore and embrace alternative methods of revival that can ensure national identity remains integrated to Iceland's national identity, just as it has been for generations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drawing upon the rich narratives of folktales as a catalyst for design, this thesis investigates the concept of future preservation and celebration of Icelandic folklore through architecture. Located in the Elli\u00f0a\u00e1rdalur Valley, an underutilized forest area on the outsiders of Reykjavik, the thesis provisions a constellation of storytelling spaces that serve both as a physical artifact and an immersive environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proposed architecture becomes a modern-day \u201cre-teller\u201d of stories, offering scientists a space to exercise with and participate in the preservation of local cultural traditions. 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