Artifact VS Antifact: Simulation as an architectural method of achieving a fragile copy of reality

Fragility is instrumentalized as a destructive factor of translating an artifact, a multisensory original into an antifact, a multisensory illusion and a fragile copy. An antifact, possible documentation of an impossible object, is created through simulation that allows exploring scenarios of fragility and the phenomenon of multisensory displacement. By applying simulation as an architectural method to achieve a fragile copy of reality, an antifact which was created is a direct response to the context, implies sensory interaction and transformability. Imagined as a polygon of the illusion of multisensory, the antifact is spatially linked to an artifact from the post-industrial landscape – the hangars of the Cargo Center. Below the hangar, parallel to the Port of Belgrade, is a research station for fragility and the illusion of multisensory with exhibition and research facilities on the first floor and commercial spaces on the ground floor. Gaps in the form enable the connection of the river with the city. Antifact on the ground floor becomes urban furniture. The polygon inside the transformed hangars, as the central motif of the spatial program scheme, represents a complex spatial audio-visual installation that enables the analysis of the behavior of participants in case of sensory overload.