Room With a View is an artistic and architectural installation presented at the MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome as part of the exhibition Stop Drawing. Architecture Beyond Representation.

The work is a cubic room measuring 3x3x3 meters in which visitors experience an inverted relationship between architecture and representation: instead of directly observing the real environment, the public experiences a digitally mediated “view” that questions how architecture is perceived and represented.

The installation inverts the formal language of the virtual and the physical. All the built objects in the installation are Platonic solids with flat faces, and the colors are taken from one of the color palettes created by Le Corbusier for Salubra. In this way, the room seems extracted from a digital, rendered world, like a video game. The virtual view that replaces the ceiling, however, is a hyperrealistic sky with moving clouds that can deceive the visitor.

The room is also an anechoic or acoustically isolated chamber. Visitors, who enter one by one, experience an artificial silence that makes them aware of the mediation of their own perception. Through four channels, infinitely changing sounds are emitted, configuring a conceptual landscape of sky and earth, of calm punctuated by unsettling high-pitched alerts. The soundtrack was created by Ignacio Furones and developed during a workshop taught by Brian Eno.

Room With a View turns the visitor into an active and conscious part of the perceptual process, proposing an unsettling future for architecture in which representation and built matter invert their roles.