# Project Description Pulse from Underground Tiancheng Yang Summary Final work A designer and researcher exploring how space, memory, and everyday rituals shape urban experience. I use the London Underground as a research lens to examine how transit environments shift from Non-Places to meaningful cultural spaces. My work draws on interdisciplinary research and translates these investigations into spatial expressions that reveal how the past continues to shape our present and imagined futures. A designer and researcher exploring how space, memory, and everyday rituals shape urban experienc... College Camberwell College of Arts Course MA Interior And Spatial Design Graduation year 2025 In the WFH future, where commuting is a distant memory, the London Underground Station, once shaped entirely by efficiency and functionality, has become obsolete and survives only as a cultural trace. This project  reinterprets the act of commuting and evolves its repetitive, routine behaviours into a commemorative ritual, which in turn reshapes the labyrinthine spatial system. Through this transformation, the everyday sequence of descending, waiting, transporting, transferring and returning to ground level is reconstructed into a solemn ritual. Adapting theories of Tension / Structure and Place / Non-Place, the event celebrates the Station's newfound meaning through memory, relation, connection and identity. The project becomes a tribute to the lost rhythms of the urban commute and an exploration of how non-place can, through ritualisation, be reinvented as a meaningful cultural place. Final work The Transit Sanctuary spatial walkthrough animation This walkthrough animation presents the Transit Sanctuary — an architectural environment developed in parallel with the ritual Pulse from Underground. The ritual and the space are conceived together as one integrated system: each spatial sequence is shaped to support a specific stage of the ritual, and the ritual in turn defines how the space is experienced. The initial trio of spaces — the High Chamber, the Middle Court, and the Ground of Offering — symbolise a gradual shedding of individuality. They transform the acts of arrival, sitting and eating into a preparation of the body and mind, marking the transition from ordinary time into ritual time. The following shared hall embodies equality and synchronised rhythm: participants from different heights arrive on the same level, suggesting the leveling of status within a collective field. The Atrium of Paths, with six visible stair routes distinguished by materials drawn from the historic Underground, represents choice within a predetermined system. Here, individual decisions unfold in full view of others, echoing how personal trajectories are still shaped by larger infrastructures. The Chamber of Loops introduces a more introspective layer: the Glass Capsules stage the tension between mediated isolation and the possibility of direct human encounter, depending on whether the projection is kept on or switched off. Finally, the ascending corridors and return to daylight symbolise re-emergence — the dissolution of the ritual body and the quiet recovery of individual identity, while the underground pulse continues beneath the city. Share this project In the WFH future, where commuting is a distant memory, the London Underground Station, once shaped entirely by efficiency and functionality, has become obsolete and survives only as a cultural trace. This project  reinterprets the act of commuting and evolves its repetit... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Histories Places & Spaces Realities Ritual