Degree Show 2025

Liminal areas are integral to the design, guiding users toward the main space while offering unique, immersive experiences. The first of these, The Web of Strings is an interactive corridor that invites users to engage with strings attached to the walls; plucking, strumming, or simply brushing past them. This tactile experience explores interactive learning through colour and chromesthesia- “individuals see colours when they hear sounds.”

Acting as a threshold or liminal space, this corridor must be experienced before entering the main event space. A passage to either pass through and admire or stay within to become immersed in sound, movement, and colour. Inspired by the inner workings of a guitar, the corridor represents the neck: a long, narrow space measuring 3 meters in width and height. This leads to a dramatic reveal of the main venue, an expansive area with a barrel-vaulted ceiling that mirrors the resonant body of a guitar.

The Web of Strings is carefully choreographed to build anticipation, relief and wonder, a design principle in architecture known as compression and release. As the user makes their way down the web of stings corridor, the music from the main venue reveals itself more and more.