Master of Architecture thesis / 2026–2027

Fields of Attenuation

How can architecture turn the boundary between inside and outside into a gradual, inhabitable transition? Fields of Attenuation explores how sound, light, thermal conditions, and privacy can be shaped across layered space.

A boundary without a transition

Contemporary architecture often reduces the building envelope to a binary plane separating controlled interior from uncontrolled exterior. Sound, light, thermal conditions, and privacy change abruptly at that boundary.

Four colored bands show sound, light, and thermal conditions decreasing abruptly at a single boundary, while privacy increases.

From a line to inhabited depth

My thesis proposes architecture as a field of attenuation, where environmental and social forces dampen or amplify across layered space. The transition between outside and inside becomes a place to inhabit.

The same four colored bands change gradually across a zone of layered space, replacing the single boundary with an inhabited transition.

From precedents to a strategy catalogue

I’m studying built precedents and extracting their architectural strategies into a visual catalogue. It connects precedent research to design decisions across site, building, and component scales.

Study + extract

Read built precedents as evidence, identifying the architectural strategies that shape sound, light, thermal conditions, and privacy.

Organize + compare

Compare strategies by force and scale through clear drawings, then combine them within a shared plan or section.

Apply to thesis design

Carry a chosen combination into a location-based concept to explore spatial relationships and inform the developing thesis design.

Building section combining a daylight court, air-cooled thermal mass, and a seasonal buffer room, with colored paths showing daylight and airflow. — A building-scale combination from the catalogue: a daylight court, air-cooled thermal mass, and a seasonal buffer room.

Thesis in progress

Explore the developing catalogue

I’m still developing this work. The preliminary website brings together the precedents, architectural strategies, and location concept into a unified ‘Catalogue’.

Preliminary Catalogue

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