→Kiril Kirilov

Biography

Kiril Kirilov is an architectural designer working across architecture, contemporary art, and spatial research. His practice is concerned with the relationship between the physical conditions of space and the social structures that operate through them. Rather than understanding architecture solely as a question of form, construction or representation, he investigates how spaces organize bodies, behaviour, access, interaction, memory, and relationships between people. His work develops through speculative and experimental processes that combine physical models, material investigations, installation, VR environments, video, drawing and archival research. These methods allow him to work simultaneously with the tangible and intangible dimensions of architecture: its materials and structures, but also the institutional, political, cultural, and social systems embedded within them. He is particularly interested in situations where these systems become unstable, disappear or are contested, and in what such conditions reveal about the role architecture plays in everyday life. Kiril often begins with existing architectural or urban conditions - buildings, infrastructures, public spaces, historical archives, or informal forms of inhabitation - and treats them not as fixed subjects but as evidence from which alternative possibilities can emerge. His work explores the tension between what a space was intended to do and how it is actually inhabited, between institutional structures and informal practices, and between collective memory and contemporary needs. Material experimentation is an important part of this process. Physical objects and architectural models are not simply representations of ideas but become ways of thinking through them. Materials are allowed to behave, deform, resist, or transform, producing forms that can reveal relationships that might remain abstract in conventional architectural drawings. Across his practice, Kiril is interested in making visible the hidden scenarios contained within architecture and in proposing alternative ways of inhabiting and understanding space. His work ultimately treats architecture as a medium through which questions of memory, material, power, community, and social life can be negotiated.