Set within Naples, Peripheral Territories explores how unseen systems of power shape everyday life not through direct visibility, but through atmosphere, behaviour, memory, and sensory perception. Influenced by the writings of Juhani Pallasmaa, the project challenges the dominance of vision in architecture, proposing instead a museum experienced through sound, shadow, material, proximity, and movement. Unfolding as a sequence of atmospheric spaces, the architecture investigates how fear, silence, tension, and fragile hope can be physically felt through the body, creating an immersive spatial journey that cannot be fully understood through image alone.

The museum unfolds through five interconnected themes that shape both the narrative and spatial language of the project. Spaces of layered thresholds, fragmented views, exposed ruins, subterranean landscapes, and controlled acoustics translate hidden social conditions into physical environments. Visitors move through territories of restriction, incompletion, environmental toxicity, silence, and fear before arriving in a final collective space centred around reflection and fragile hope. Rather than presenting history as a linear sequence of events, Peripheral Territories proposes an architecture of atmosphere and perception that asks visitors not simply to observe, but to sense the hidden pressures, tensions, and memories embedded within the city.