The course invites students to explore architecture through the lens of human movement, positioning the body as a metaphor for spatial experience. By observing and analyzing motion, students examine the dynamic relationship between the human form and the spaces it navigates, occupies, and shapes.

Through a structured series of representational and material studies, the project builds an understanding of movement as a driver of form, and space as an expression of the body’s rhythms and proportional logic.

The design process unfolds through a structured sequence of exercises that introduce techniques for capturing and translating movement. Students begin by breaking down motion into sequential frames, drawing from video studies to create abstracted image series. These explorations evolve into 3D digital models, diagrammatic logic-based drawings, and material experiments that test the translation of dynamic motion into physical form.

As the course develops, students engage with principles of scale, proportion, and adaptability, gradually shifting from observational studies to speculative design strategies. The final stage of the project challenges students to reinterpret movement into sculptural yet functional archetypes using wood steam bending. Throughout this phase, students design and fabricate their own jigs and steaming chambers, taking full ownership of the making process, from conceptualization to material manipulation.