Project description

The Liminal Register reframes a building through the passages its plans dismiss as circulation. Across six thresholds of Paterson's Land, each is tuned to a single sense through one focusing intervention: a handrail rewritten for the hand, a bay whose every seat composes a different room. Moving through them, the body reads the building through touch, sound, light, smell and its own sense of space in turn. An audio walk binds the six into one passage, itself a non-visual way to read the building. Because no two people read a space alike, each walk composes an interior of its own.

Research Questions:

Design: How can a sequence of threshold spaces in Paterson's Land, each tuned to a single sense through a small focusing intervention and bound together by an audio walk, be composed into one walkable sensorium, a deliberate flow from one sense to the next?

Phenomenological: What is disclosed about a heritage interior when it is read one sense at a time along a walk, with the felt, spatial senses treated as design material alongside touch, sound, light and smell, and how does the walk let each body compose an interior of its own rather than receive a single fixed one?

Socio-spatial and access: How can the interventions and the audio walk together hold the collective memory worn into the building's thresholds while making the sequence legible and hospitable to bodies that read space differently, so that the audio walk is itself an act of access, not description?

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Interior, Architectural and Spatial Design - MA
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