Aphantasia is the inability of to voluntarily generate mental images. My work explores this condition as both limitation and possibility. Drawing on Jane Rendell’s notion of site-writing (2010), I treat space as something experienced through association and language rather than representation. The project is less about constructing an image and more about constructing an encounter: one that draws people into awareness of how they perceive, recall, and inhabit space. Through drawings, models, and writing, I aim to test how architectural thinking might operate without vision at its center, where imagination is a spatial condition shared between body, material, and environment.
Site Section-St Kilda Triangle
This project traces a sensory journey from the landscape into a sequence of interior atmospheres. Each chamber translates memory into material experience: light filters through fabric, air shifts in temperature, and sound bathes us . The architecture is read through movement and sensation rather than image, designed for those who imagine through sound, texture, and rhythm. The sequence becomes a gradient of perception, where seeing gives way to feeling.
Sound Bath- Tactile Plan
Pressed Leather, emulating the seating material of the seating of the sound bath. The plan is created to be touched and read
Waiting Room Model detail
In the Salt Room, slow streams of salt fall continuously from openings in the ceiling, forming shifting mounds that glow in the reflected light of a suspended sun at the far end. The air is dry and crystalline, catching sound and scattering it softly. As the salt accumulates, it records time, erosion, and renewal, inviting stillness. Walking through feels like moving inside a landscape of light and dust, where material, body, and atmosphere merge in a single, meditative rhythm.
'Model'
Sugar Gum slab, loofah trees, Musou black painted wooden buildings
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