Selected extracts from 'Body, Threshold, Architecture.' completed in partial fulfilment of MArch.Prof at Te Herenga Waka VUW, 2024-2025.
This speculative research explores how bodily movement through architectural thresholds can strengthen the connection between the human body and the built environment. Traditionally viewed as separate, the body and architecture are reconnected here through the exploration of movement and thresholds using sensory ‘edge’ perception as a design catalyst. Using a design-as-research methodology, the thesis investigates how threshold spaces can provoke movement and reframe the body’s role in architectural design through three interventions: a sensory installation, a mid-scale co-housing design, and a public-scale art gallery.
