While we are constantly immersed in a world driven by efficiency and immediacy, the result is a collapsed distance of seduction and desire and a diluted connection to making and the arts. Venice, California was intended to emulate the character and stories of Venice, Italy, to create an emphasis on the arts and fashion in the United States. In the dawn of our consumer culture, this intention was lost along the way. Journeys through architecture, whether they are in dreams or waking reality, can inspire meaningful and memorable cadence and creation that restores empathy and connects to stories by maintaining an interpretive, participatory distance for those who encounter them. Based on paradigmatic influences from Octavio Paz’s interpretation of Marcel Duchamp’s, The Large Glass, the quest for love in Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the Janus Head, and inspirations from evocative writings in Joseph Brodsky’s Watermark, this thesis proposes a campus of maker spaces and galleries for fashion and art that connects users to stories, culture, and each other while on a journey through the buildings and site. Like Duchamp’s The Large Glass, the buildings on the campus act as a hinge to bring stories together and open layered spaces of wonder and desire. Constructed by meaningful tectonics and materials, the architectural frame houses a path that intrigues a cognizant involvement with spatial encounter, aiming to inspire and awaken others to make and create art, fashion, and architecture.