The Sequence by Thomas Rowntree is an academic architecture project about film, movement and the way spatial experience can support rehabilitation.
The thesis asks how architectural spaces might be organised as sequences, using ideas from film framing and montage to think about people leaving prison and the environments that support change.
Project overview
Thomas is a BA(Hons) Architecture graduate. The original profile notes that his final-year thesis was nominated for the RIBA Bronze Medal and the AJ Student Prize.
The project draws on Bernard Tschumi’s question about organising architectural drawings as a movement sequence, alongside film and theory references including Gilles Deleuze and Sergei Eisenstein.
What the project is testing
- How film framing can inform the way spaces are entered and understood.
- How sequence can slow down, speed up or redirect experience.
- How rehabilitation environments might support reflection and change.
- How theory can become a design tool rather than an academic label.
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- Show how the reference changes the design.
- Explain the user and the environment carefully.
- Use diagrams that make the sequence legible.
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