Layering in representation: Rethinking architectural representation through perry kulper’s works

“Layered representations” in architecture create a ‘personal’ language with their complex structures and can be accepted as creative tools for thinking and designing architectural space in a performative way. These kinds of multiple/interwoven representations that are produced by the overlapping and manipulation of both design tools and ideas are valuable in the context of their original narratives and present an alternative approach in the dialog with space by expanding the boundaries of architectural representations. This study aims to focus on these new forms of architectural representation and discusses them through “personalknowledge theory”. Within the scope of the study, some of Perry Kulper’s works are chosen and examined as case-studies. Dual readings, which are discussed through the concepts of ‘design thinking and designing act’, as well as ‘explicit and tacit knowledge’, constitute the methodology of this study. Selected works and their architectural narratives are then discussed based on these dual readings. Depending on outcomes, it can be suggested that although layered representations produce singularities through personal knowledge, these singularities include/ carry the possibility of creating alternative spatial worlds and atmospheres in architecture.