How spaces shape everyday life

NEURODESIGN is Kesi Shankar’s spatial research practice. It examines how light, sound, materials and layout affect the ways people rest, work and live, and brings that research into design decisions.

Monochrome photograph of low ocean waves in parallel bands.Dark metal door pull mounted on charred timber boards.Curving black stone stair with a segmented bronze handrail against white plaster.Tree shadows on plywood walls beside a full-height gable window.Timber-lined room with a tall gable and a lower adjoining bay.Low built-in seating against an earth-plaster wall beneath a deep niche.Linen curtains, mats and bolsters in a plastered studio.Pale handmade tiles on a rough wall under angled light.Conifers in a sunken stone planter beneath a skylight.A sequence of door frames receding into darkness over pale sand.Flat sea beneath a graduated dusk sky.Multiple-exposure photograph of office towers.A shaft of daylight crossing a dark concrete interior.Pleated roof folds spiralling around a glazed circular opening.Curved sofas and a rug arranged as a seating area in an open room.Smoke rising from palo santo on a wooden dish in sunlight.Granite steps through a narrow doorway into a darker room.Cool daylight through a translucent wall beside warm red lighting.Curved plaster walls and a backlit cylindrical volume.Coffered corridor with a symmetrical arrangement and shadows on one wall.Arched plaster recess with shelves, a curved bench and a reading light.Corridor with a long bookshelf and desk ending at a dark timber wall.Stone bath beneath plaster and board-marked concrete surfaces.Brick piers and pointed vaults repeating along a nave.Curved banquette recessed in a dim tiled room beneath circular lights.Steps leading to a tall recessed opening above low seating.Light lines tracing curved balconies in a white atrium.Pivoting screens opening a concrete pavilion towards a landscape.Exposed conduit and weathered concrete behind a low daybed.Sheer curtains diffusing daylight and casting a soft window shadow.Room with a pinned image wall, patterned rug and painting beneath a vault.Concrete island in a brick kitchen.Window light falling in bands along a plaster corridor.Modern furniture in a nineteenth-century panelled apartment.Books and objects on a timber shelf beside a bed and marble console.