Academic Architecture

Emotion Time

Generating Spatial Language from an Emotional Form–Meaning Field

Period

2021

Location

Xi'an, China

Role

Individual design and independent revision

Status

Academic / Unbuilt

Exploded axonometric drawing of Emotion Time

Project premise

Instead of beginning with rooms, the project begins with feelings and asks what kinds of events a space can invite.

A library and cultural space that translates emotion, perception, events and movement into a field of spatial encounters.

Type

Library / Cultural space

Context

Beilin historic district

Versions

School proposal + independent revision

Final display

Revised proposal

01 / Research

From emotion to spatial language

The original project developed an entity-sense-field framework. Emotional impressions were abstracted into elements, then combined into spatial situations involving enclosure, exposure, encounter, hesitation and movement.

This research became a catalogue of possible relationships rather than a fixed formal vocabulary.

02 / Revision

Space, event and movement

The later independent revision shifts attention from isolated emotional rooms to the uncertain relationship between architecture and use. Parallel drawing sequences test the building as an object, as an empty spatial condition and as a field occupied by events.

03 / Proposal

A fragmented cultural field

Courtyards, reading rooms, water, screens, stairs and changing light form a porous composition within the historic district. Routes overlap and spaces remain open to more than one interpretation, allowing visitors to construct their own sequence.

Selected project material