What if the room you walked into noticed you were alone — and held you?

These concepts explore affective architecture: furniture and interiors that sense, respond, and participate in the emotional lives of their occupants.

Couches that apply deep pressure when you sit alone. Walls embedded with pneumatic bladders that swell inward when you enter, pressing back when you lean in.

A chair that slowly disassembles itself as a child approaches adulthood, distributing its parts into a portable kit for their first apartment.

A home that registers who's missing and restructures around their absence.

These are shelters that care whether you're inside them — architecture as weighted blanket, as somatic relationship, as embrace.