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# Project Description HOW MOVEMENTS Lines of Care BECOME SPATIAL MEMORY Meng Zhao Summary Final work Interior and spatial designer exploring how personal memory and domestic rituals can be translated into clear, buildable spatial concepts and installations, with a focus on care, atmosphere and emotional healing. Interior and spatial designer exploring how personal memory and domestic rituals can be transla... College Camberwell College of Arts Course MA Interior And Spatial Design Graduation year 2025 This project explores how domestic memories and maternal gestures shape an inner architecture of healing. Born from auto-ethnographic research, the work reconstructs intimate fragments of my childhood home and transforms them into a multi-layered spatial installation. The design is structured around a vertical “onion-like” house, composed of three emotional layers: 1. The Core – Fantasy & Childhood Imagination A colourful, translucent stair form emerges from the centre, inspired by the fantasy staircases I once drew on the walls as a child. This stair becomes a symbolic connector between past and present, between an upstairs home and my grandmother’s home below. 2. The Middle Layer – Transition Between Emotion and Structure Semi-transparent geometric forms act as intermediaries, allowing memories to be translated into spatial language. Tiny embedded light points evoke fireflies or household lanterns, symbolising warmth and guidance. 3. The Outer Layer – Rational Architectural Structure A clear geometric framework grounds the installation, referencing architectural order while holding emotional content within. Threading through the entire house is a wire-and-bead “energy trajectory”, visualising the caring movements of my mother in the kitchen—her rhythms, routines, and unseen labour. These lines translate maternal gestures into spatial traces, acknowledging the silent emotional labour often carried by women within the home. This installation is not a reconstruction of a physical house, but a reconstruction of how a house feels: a vessel of memory, care, sound, and healing. Through layering, light, linework and movement, the project asks: How does a home hold us? And how do the traces of maternal love continue to heal us, even when we have grown far away from it? Final work Final Spatial Rendering – Memory, Care and Vertical Movement A rendering of the final installation, where colour, light and layered components articulate a spatial expression of memory and maternal care. The image presents how the elements coexist as a single emotional installation. FUL PORTFOLLIO PDF LINK https://www.kdocs.cn/l/cvNGvJjhCnwe Share this project This project explores how domestic memories and maternal gestures shape an inner architecture of healing.Born from auto-ethnographic research, the work reconstructs intimate fragments of my childhood home and transforms them into a multi-layered spatial installation.</p... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard
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