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Hollow Walls
Advised by Raveevarn Choksombatchoi
and Luisa Caldas
The following proposal for a Center for Sensory healing for research and education center for Autism Spectrum Disorder starts with the crafting of moments of experiential lighting. Light strategies are used to create subtle washes, delineate transition spaces and create way-finding patterns. The use of a thickened and hollowed wall allows light to be transferred downward and light canons demarcate key spaces, while creating a landscape of features on the roof.
Sectional moments were designed to prioritized implementation of key lighting features. For example, transitional spaces are marked with light, using again the hollow walls to act as light shafts (shown second from the left). An interesting feature of this is the difference that emerges between reflected light and direct light, in terms of quality and coloring (shown on the far right).
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Above: Wall washing in the gallery allows for control of light and sensory conditions. Opportunities for rest and respite found within the wall.
Below: Gallery shown in plan, hollow walls become apparent
Below: Gallery shown in plan, hollow walls become apparent
The scale-lessness of light is played with, in the representation of detail versus room across the project.
