Farin Hossain

Farin Hossain is a UK-based interior architect and designer, born and raised in Vicenza, Italy. Her practice explores the relationship between place and human perception. She focuses specifically on how built environments shape behaviour, emotion and social interaction over time.

Hossain’s works mainly with geometry and light. She uses proportion, form and material presence to make spatial experiences that are sustained and quietly evolving. However, Farin is successful in bridging two ways of thinking within her practice: leading the body throughout the space, and creating an environment in which the body can pause. Such an idea is realised through careful architectural planning of the surrounding space that creates an atmosphere, made possible by arranging thresholds, playing with light sources, and carefully choosing forms and shapes. Drawing is one of the essential aspects of her practice for examining ideas concerning proportion, structure, and sequence prior to actualising her works in material.

This analogue interrogation aligns her practice with the phenomenological approach of Olafur Eliasson, whose work positions the sensing body at the core of spatial experience, decisively exploring the essence of truly inhabiting an environment.

Hossain’s work is evidently driven by dedication to space as an entity perceived before it is grasped conceptually. Kengo Kuma's architecture is defined by the dissolution of material boundaries and the insistence on sensory continuity between interior and exterior. This informs her approach to threshold, texture and spatial sequence. The research done by James Turrell on the tangible nature of light, apart from the act of illuminating, is similar to that done by Farin on the development of perception as one moves and dwells in a space. There exists a central premise here: that modern architecture prioritises efficiency over presence. Farin’s spaces avoid doing this. Rather, they are intended to slow down the process of perceptual changes, engage the senses of the body, and make inhabiting a place an introspective activity.