Beyond sight & sound
beyond sight & sound
Our design group is dedicated to creating architecture that goes beyond sight, embracing the full range of human senses to shape meaningful and inclusive spaces. We design for blind and visually impaired individuals by integrating touch, sound, scent, and spatial awareness, ensuring environments that are both functional and deeply experiential. Our work aims to redefine how spaces are perceived, proving that architecture is not just seen—it is felt, heard, and lived.
Our body in the world as the heart in the organism: and with it forms a system and sensory experience that is unstable and alien to natural perception, which we have achieved with our whole body all at once, which opens on a world of interacting senses.
Merleau -ponty
“The body knows and remembers. Architectural meaning derives from archaic responses and reactions, deeply rooted in the body’s sense of space and matter. A house is not merely a shelter, but an extension of the body’s skin, a protective membrane that defines our boundary with the world. We dwell in our spaces in the same way we inhabit our bodies—through movement, through the engagement of all the senses, and through the silent dialogue between our inner world and the material presence of architecture.”
– Juhanni Palasama