Yigit Kamiloglu | Architecture & Spatial Design

SAME SPACE, DIFFERENT SILENCE

Freelance | 2025-2026 - Preliminary Design to Execution | on Progress

Typology Urban Art/Architecture Installation | Artistic Research Project, Urban Intervention
Location Tokyo, Japan and Berlin, Germany
Status Work on Progress, Completion in June 2026
Position Artist, Craftsman, Spatial Designer, Project Manager

“Same Space, Different Silence” is an artistic research project and temporary architectural installation that investigates how distinct cultural backgrounds shape the sensory, emotional, and behavioral perception of spatial atmosphere. By constructing two physically identical, low-impact walkable structures in heavily contrasting urban environments, Berlin and Tokyo, the project shifts the focus from architecture as a static, formal object to architecture as a performative,
relational field.
Theoretical in its foundation, the design establishes a dialogue between Western architectural rationalism and Eastern spatial phenomenology. It juxtaposes the structural archetype of Marc-Antoine Laugier’s Primitive Hut, architecture as a permanent, rational response to the necessity for shelter, with the Japanese concept of Ma, the active interval, negative space, and charged potential found within transitions and boundaries. By transforming a protective enclosure into an abstract, semi-permeable threshold, the structure strips away conventional notions of interior security, prompting visitors to psychologically renegotiate concepts of public space, proximity, and privacy.

Operating as a qualitative behavioral laboratory rather than a prescriptive venue, the installation introduces an ambiguous framework with no predefined rules or linear paths. As users encounter, inhabit, or hesitate around the structure, their movements directly modify the spatial tension and collective atmosphere over time. Through a comparative methodology involving photographic tracking, videographic recording, and spatial observation, the project maps localized nuances in human behavior, tracking immediacy versus hesitation, distance versus intimacy, and contemplation versus intervention. Ultimately, it serves as a spatial crucible, capturing the exact moments where a universally replicated physical structure diverges into entirely unique, culturally constructed realities.