Experiential Architecture
Set Design
Designed a cinematic corridor sequence exploring light, scale, and movement as tools for shaping spatial perception and time-based experience.
Research Project · KU Leuven
Role: Spatial Design · Story Boarding · Render
Team: Hana Khurshid
This project explores architecture as an experiential and psychological medium; one that shapes perception through light, shadow, and movement. Drawing inspiration from the cinematic spatial language of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick, the work investigates how architectural space can evoke curiosity, unease, and speculation.
The project focuses on the corridor as a spatial device, challenging its conventional linearity. Through shifts in scale, angle, color, and light, corridors unfold into layered sequences that blur boundaries between passage and destination. As light changes throughout the day, space becomes dynamic rather than fixed, transforming architecture into a temporal experience.
Time emerges as an invisible material within the project. The movement of light reveals duration, orientation, and atmosphere, encouraging exploration and turning circulation into a performance of space.
The first corridor which leads you to a staircase, wrapped between two arches. It is signified by its color. The corridor has apertures where light changes throughout the day, showing the essence of time. The two walls are heavy concrete, angled away, leading you to the next space.
The next space with repetitive massive columns leading you towards a staircase. The lights in the center of the roof directs you to the next space. Pipelines and structures are visible in this space, creating a raw feeling of space with untreated concrete. You can also tell where the light is coming from, and an idea of the character of the windows as you see the shadow being created on the concrete surface.
The space now starts to change in shape and form, with more curvilinear forms. The light from the roof slit changes throughout the day, giving a sense of time. The mirror gives an illusion of a more open space. The narrow door leaves you curious, moving you to the next space.
The narrow door leads to this space, enclosing you in massive concrete. You see an asymmetry in space, seen in the walls, one being more linear and one more curvilinear, as well as th roof with their apertures. Straight ahead you see a curved concrete wall with a skylight, moving the user towards it.
The last and final space. Massive concrete structures in symmetry over power the user, showing rhythm, as well as irregular angles, while the roof has a triangular pattern, with apertures in some of them, letting light flow in the space, creating a pattern throughout the day. At the far end the light flows in from the last concrete structure, leading you to a view of the outside.
