Recollection by Flo Saunders

Project images

The visuals show the project moving between civic occupation, landscape thinking and spatial atmosphere.

Shared space and wellbeing sit at the centre of the project idea.

The project uses structure and landscape as part of one civic experience.

Atmosphere, colour and threshold help explain the spatial character of the proposal.

What the project is asking

A tunnel entrance can easily be treated as leftover infrastructure. Flo’s project asks whether that kind of edge can become a place of pause, connection and sensory relief.

• The tunnel entrance becomes a civic threshold rather than a dead edge.
• Void space is treated as potential, not emptiness.
• Nature is used as a spatial and wellbeing tool, not decoration.
• Movement, pause and encounter are designed together.
• The project links mental comfort with physical accessibility and social use.

Why the biophilic angle works

Biophilic design can become vague very quickly if the project only adds greenery. Recollection is more interesting because it links nature to behaviour: how people enter, pause, gather, look across a space and feel whether the city welcomes them.

That makes the project useful for students working on public space. The design argument is not just that nature is good. It is that specific spatial moves can make a difficult urban condition easier to occupy.

Portfolio lesson

If this project sat in a portfolio, the key would be sequencing. Start with the urban problem, show the threshold condition, then explain how each intervention changes use, comfort and identity.

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Follow the project route

This is a student showcase, so the project should lead. Readers who want to compare similar work can move into the wider project archive.

• Contact Flo Saunders
• Browse more student project showcases
• Submit your own project

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Architecture Social view

Stephen’s recruiter view is that wellbeing projects need evidence. A strong portfolio shows where the design changes noise, light, movement, privacy, safety or contact with nature.

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Showcase a public-space or wellbeing project

If your project is about wellbeing, make the spatial evidence clear enough for someone outside your studio to understand.

• Name the urban condition you are improving.
• Show how people move, pause and gather.
• Explain what nature changes in the space.
• Use captions to connect visuals to human experience.

Submit your project

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