Floor Plan Croissant is a project directed by Boryana Ilieva founded to examine cinematographic spaces and bring the spatial language of the director to her own architectural understanding. However, later these translations took a social turn: as an architect and cinema lover, Boryana perceives a general gap between cinema and architecture, or in other words, a space that allows architects to explore beyond the screen. With this in mind, her work is based on extracting the plans from the main protagonist places in outstanding films, since she believes that a movie theater plan forms a phantom matrix around which the directors not only construct arguments, but rather they also place hidden messages.
A major change in my professional career occurred after attending a weeklong session cycle with Juhani Pallasmaa in Sofia in 2014, right after reading his masterpiece "Image Architecture" where he explores the space lived in five films by four iconic directors: Hitchcock, Tarkovsky, Antonioni, Kubrick. What most influenced and opened the doors to future film/architecture adventures was Pallasmaa's observation that in Antonioni's "The Passenger", the presence of music is replaced by the environmental presence of... architecture.
- Boryana Ilieva
