Split Visions: A Perceptual Re-Framing of the Urban Threshold
Between What Was and What Could Be
An exploration of urban thresholds as cinematic spatial devices
In every city lies a quiet tension, the space between here and there, the thresholds we cross without thought. This project pauses that moment. It proposes that these in-between spaces are not just zones of passage, but rich fields of perception, layered with memory, context, and the choreography of everyday life.
Drawing from the language of cinema, the split diopter, forced perspective, and reflected illusions, this thesis turns architecture into narrative. Physical installations become spatial edits, holding dual realities in focus, stretching time, and folding movement into visual tension. One step forward becomes a sequence, a frame, a reflection.
Each threshold becomes a situation, not a site. Each crossing a scene, not just a path. By reflecting the contrasting edges of a city, the design constructs an encounter with the urban fabric of material and immaterial that is both physical and emotional, both seen and sensed
This thesis resists the fixity of form, challenging architecture’s habitual scripts by composing spatial narratives that move, distort, and remember, revealing new ways to design the overlooked.
Informed by a self-developed conceptual framework and an experimental material strategy, this thesis moves beyond static form, asking architecture to activate, to remember, to perform. It makes space not just to walk through, but to feel through, to dwell briefly in the blur between past and present, between arrival and departure.
This is an architecture of attention.
A call to see what usually goes unseen.
A cinematic unfolding of the city’s forgotten stage.
