Elias Xian
I approach architecture as a language—one that speaks through form, memory, and rhythm. My work seeks to reveal the emotional and cultural dimensions of space: how buildings remember, how they listen, how they offer meaning beyond function.
Folded Script embodies this belief. Inspired by Islamic geometry and the quiet rituals of sacred architecture, the project transforms surface into structure and pattern into path. Each fold is a sentence; each shadow, a breath. The building is not meant to explain—it is meant to be walked, felt, interpreted.
I design not to impose meaning, but to invite it. Architecture, to me, is not a monument. It is a manuscript—written in space, read by the body.
Folded Script embodies this belief. Inspired by Islamic geometry and the quiet rituals of sacred architecture, the project transforms surface into structure and pattern into path. Each fold is a sentence; each shadow, a breath. The building is not meant to explain—it is meant to be walked, felt, interpreted.
I design not to impose meaning, but to invite it. Architecture, to me, is not a monument. It is a manuscript—written in space, read by the body.
