Embodying Stillness

As we move through the crowded city, we face tension in the form of overstimulation, stress, and anxiety. Our initial emotional response to our environment is often precognitive or nonconscious, and our biological responses occur before we have a chance to consciously reflect on our experience. We form our identity and become who we are based on the various environments we interact with. All our perceptions, emotions, feelings, thoughts, values, and actions are all influenced by our embodied transactions with our physical surroundings, social connections, and cultural traditions. Therefore, our ability to understand, create, and share meaning is not solely determined by the biological makeup of our brain and body, but just as much by how our environments are structured. The aim is to intuitively grasp the essence of human nature and its behavior, by approaching it in a way that is sensitive to the hidden biological and mental characteristics of space, form, and materiality; to create places and atmospheres that make us feel safe, comfortable, invigorated, and dignified. A form of constructed subliminal mental spaces; to provide a retreat of resonance that offers various experiences to provoke these feelings—a sequence from the tension of the city into a place of stillness