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Thresholds of Stillness.

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IAD: MA

Rohit Panjabi

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Design Studio 02

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This conceptual visual explores the canal house as a liminal space that bridges the structured intensity of the city with the fluid calm of the canal. It intertwines realms of nature and architecture, movement and stillness, transition and presence. Above, a wireframe city suggests density and abstraction. At the center, the translucent canal house stands as a moment of passage, inviting reflection and subtle shifts. Below, water, greenery and soft mobility introduce a slower, human-scale rhythm. The composition imagines the canal house as threshold architecture, where the city’s pulse meets the canal’s calm, and new spatial possibilities quietly emerge.

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This composition explores a conceptual abstract concept of transition, where architecture becomes a threshold rather than a destination. The bridge acts as both passage and pause, guiding movement through layered spaces that blur the line between solid and void. Vertical elements rise like fragments of memory, suspended within a shifting atmosphere of lines and gradients. The canal reflects and distorts, creating a mirrored reality that questions what is above and below, real and imagined. Figures ascend a path that stretches into uncertainty, suggesting motion through a liminal space, a moment of in-betweenness. Here, form dissolves into flow, and space becomes an experience of quiet transformation.

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