Stuart Neilson: 'At Singer’s Corner in Cork, people are walking across a rectangular city design'

The Cork-based academic has brought his Asperger's view of the world into his pieces on display at the Venice Architectural Biennale

Stuart Neilson's work is currently included in the virtual Venice Architectural Biennale

The Bayeux Tapestry is 70 metres long, and 50cm tall. To view it, you normally have to walk its length, taking in the ancient tale scene by scene. So how would it be possible to view it in its entirety, all at the same time?

Dr Stuart Neilson hit on an ingenious solution to the unique conundrum he had set himself: “The problem was, how do you take something that’s so long and compress it so you can see it all at the same time? I took it and made it into a spiral, so that you can see it on the same page.”