According to Juhani Pallasmaa, architectural experience engages the entire body and all the senses, transforming space into a lived, embodied experience. This perspective served as a key theoretical reference for the students’ zine and installation, Outside the City, Within the Self.

We approach the summer house and its natural surroundings as a site of sensory and emotional experience, where light, wind, sounds and the textures of nature shape our relationship with space. At the same time, the place evokes personal and family memories, which we express through images, tactile materials, personal writings and archival photographs.