Emotion Deposit Hub

The thesis focuses on how emotion-provoking, through affective design, can encourage people's authentic and meaningful engagement. By proposing an 'emotion deposit hub,' this work attempts to develop an alternative adaptive reuse solution to transform the typology of parking spaces into a series of affective typology where people establish real connections to the built environment, thereby encouraging community engagement and personal expression. Based on site-specific research and mapping of emotional response to surrounding built environment, the subterranean design transforms the site into an urban green park with the program tucked inside, featuring emotion-centered spaces various functions and spatial quality.

This diagram showcases the development process from the garage typology to the final affective typology.

This image showcases the massing strategy and program arrangement on plans.

This image showcases the section and the verticality of the sunken component of the design.

This image showcases the renderings of each affective space according to their emotion energy level (From high level at left to low level at right).

This image showcases the iterative model study focusing on materiality, spatial arrangement and lighting test.