Breath of Seasons
Brief
Design a multisensory installation with the main intention is to challenge yourself to go beyond the purely visual aspects of architecture, placing greater emphasis on auditory, tactile, and bodily experiences. By orchestrating a journey for participants, you are expected to highlight how architecture can be lived and felt on multiple levels.
Services
Experience Design
Installation Design
Self Driven
Client
Location
The Royal Academy of Arts The Hague
Year
2025
FOCUS: Exploring the use of respiration's physiological cycle-inhale → pause → exhale-as a metaphor for balance in emotions and nature's cycles.
APPROACH: Three distinct rooms guide visitors through changing sensory environments-tactile resistance, reflective stillness, and open-air release-creating a full-bodied interaction with space and self.
CONCEPT: Breathing as a seasonal transformation. Instead of literally referring to seasons, each state represents a shift in energy: effort, awareness, and renewal — paralleling life transitions with the cyclical regeneration occurring in nature.
OUTCOME: This is an installation that creates a looping sensory experience moving from constriction → presence → openness, where the grounded textures, mirrored expansiveness, and soft landscape culminate in a soothing meditative release under the sky. Breath of Seasons serves to show how spatial design can control internal rhythms and makes mindful pauses through subtle multisensory hints.
