Continuing the thematic exploration of ‘architectural layering’ developed in my Diploma 1 project, this year’s project aims to challenge the traditional typology of the cultural institution by creating an immersive experience, one that blurs the boundaries between reality and the imaginary, between performer and observer.

Focusing on the sectional convergence between territories within a rapidly growing city, a multi-layered drawing technique began to explore the themes of visual stimulation, movement and the perception of depth. Relating this study to Seoul, a typological hybridisation of ‘dance school’ and ‘mediatheque’ is proposed – stimulating a new type of cultural consumption by integrating the human and the digital.

Two and three-dimensional physical constructs manifested this condition by superimposing layers in order to produce a volumetric moiré effect. With movement, the overlapping illusion disables any visual resolution creating a dynamic spatial experience that can be used to address conditions of visual permeability and screening at an urban, building and human scale.