INTERMISSIONS is a spatial provocation responding to today’s blurred boundaries between work and life, where visibility is constant and rest is rare. Set in a public void within Singapore’s dense cityscape, the project reimagines the co-working environment as a transformable playscape that challenges the role of surveillance—not as control, but as an ambient, shifting condition that guides behavior and spatial experience.

Designed as a dynamic threshold between solitude and sociability, the intervention uses sightlines, thresholds, and time-based transformations to choreograph movement, interaction, and disengagement. A matrix of visible and invisible zones is created, where red surveillance lines shape flows and interactions, making observation readable and at times optional. Certain spaces invite visibility; others resist it. Hidden zones, like rest-play areas, are discoverable only by the attentive.

Adaptive furniture supports this choreography: tables collapse into seats, shelves rise to modulate sightlines, and a bowling track appears intermittently as a playful disruption. A rotating room shifts function by time—workspace by day, reflective space by night. As the sun sets, the space morphs from a co-working hub into a social bar, with shifting partitions and shared surveillance.

Formally, the design balances playfulness and intention—curves, platforms, and ambiguous thresholds blur the boundaries between indoor/outdoor, structure/spontaneity, exposure/retreat. Rather than eliminate surveillance, the project reveals and reframes it, embedding it into a responsive ecology of spatial behaviors.

INTERMISSIONS proposes a model of spatial well-being for the age of overexposure. It is a design that listens and adapts—supporting rhythms of work, play, and pause. It challenges users to reconsider visibility and agency, asking: When do I want to be seen? When do I need to disappear? And how can space offer me both?