At the start of second year, students were partitioned into more independent and self-driven studio groups. Our studio was assigned a focus on the many beautifying properties of light which can be manipulated via architecture. At a smaller, precise scale, we were asked to draft various studies which picked at one or two specific parameters expressed by light. Fixated on the phenomenology of light at a molecular level, I drew inspiration from the concepts of diffraction, being especially attracted to the ideas of thin film and other forms of interference patterns. I inevitably arrived at the geometry of arrayed lines, which cast shadows onto a reflective, diffractive medium and spread streaks of color about the surface to be projected onto. The tunnel-esque form expressed by the final study was a reflection on one of architecture's most primal designs, and a celebration of the Freudian attraction to the womb as a coccoon of refuge, security, and maternal warmth. And as archietcture cannot exist solely as light or darkness, the slits at the entrance allow light to penetrate the deepest recesses of the space and bring a suggestion of the outside world into the womb, suggesting a primordial vision of 'fertility'.