"the architecture is quite impossible...no such building as is illustrated in Belvedere could possibly exist."

The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher, by B. Ernst, p 86.

This apparently functionless and impossible image is accessory architecture. Escher's print constructs an illogical possibility. By both using conventional clues and misusing and violating convention (perspective and depth clues are used in such a way as to increase ambiguity rather than reduce it.), Escher produces the unconventional; a simulated architecture - (mis)appropriating a painting and a building structure. A game of truth and its deception, the proper and its crime. Devoted to the erroneous, the deviant, the criminal and the impossible escape - the prison below founds the construction.

A theme of the print is Necker's cube. Necker's cube, held by the figure in the print, is echoed in the drawing beside this figure and again in the building structure. Described as impossible within a three dimensional reality the parts appear wrongly connected, improperly joined or jointed; unobvious deviations conceal structurally receeding advancements. Completeness disintegrates and "errors" tension the structure as its spaces are shifted, twisted, distorted and pulled through reversals. The 2D drawing invites us to read the 2D as 3D. Similarly the architectural drawings of the design produced from this print invite the viewer to read the 3D as 2D, and vice versa.

"If we cut the print horizontally across where the pillars seem to cross over, the two halves would be perfectly normal; it is a matter of making impossible connections."

J.L. Locher.

The derivative design explores differential possibilities for constructing the "same". "Escher-esque" illusions are constructed in 3D. The design derives from the translated structure of the print. The organising structure that shapes the work is visible only from certain positions.

The surface plays with depth, casting doubt into space, confusing interiors and exteriors. An overlapping of the gaps and spaces of 2D and 3D suggests a differently structured space; a space in which the projcction of two different realities can be observed. As the print lacking depth sets up the illusion of depth, pretending to construct something Other, so also the building design confuses distinctions with an "improper Other".