Composing an Envelopment: A Cleansing, Melting into Mindlessness

The thesis challenges the potential given around the rail tracks, exploring and defining its spatial content and designing possible acts of architecture rather than a train station; the ruling railway architecture. Initiating through a curiosity in the attraction of daily train commuting, the journey is commonly more appealing to the adolescent populace rather than the daily commuters of adulthood. As the essence of an attractive journey is traveling through a threshold of unknowing, the journey is delivered as a mundane pessimistic appeal to our norm commuters and surrounding residence.

The thesis first outlines perimeters of the framework by defining three standards of the train, the passenger and the perceiver. The analysis of these three relationships through illustration and abstract calculation further locates characteristics of lightness, layering, decay and repetition, translating to critical themes of mindlessness and existence/nonexistence. The exploration processes to provide a definition and an entity of the space surrounding the rail tracks as the envelopment. This envelopment thus follows to propose a therapeutic, cleansing setting to both our standard passenger and standard perceiver through various apparatus of architecture, which accumulates sensual amplification for the passenger, and interprets domestic purifiers into public scenes for the perceiver.