A Space for Critical
Design Thinking
The Walking Directory
Hamzah Al Asadulloh
The Walking Directory
Hamzah Al Asadulloh

The experience of navigating through buildings on foot has become stressful and intense, inducing anxiety and other mental health problems. To counteract this urban tension, the Walking Directory provides respite and moments of calm, paired with shifting perspectives, allowing the act of walking to transform from one of stress to one of leisure and creativity. This project exaggerates the sense of movement through the city by extending desire lines, creating opportunities where people can move through spaces with contrasting atmospheres. The collage was borne out of a desire to investigate finer elements of the project. Schemes of form, color, and material were interrogated more closely and ultimately informed the final design. The project was developed within the context of the Royal College of Art.