Stage / Spatial Design — The Orient Express

CulturesIn Transit

A continuous narrative world where space, movement, and cultural fragments unfold as a choreographed journey.

Set along the route of the Orient Express, the project transforms cultural encounters between cities into an evolving spatial narrative.

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World-Building

The journey becomes a continuous world in which landscapes, interiors, objects, characters, and cultural fragments coexist within a single visual language.

Rather than designing isolated scenes, the project constructs a spatial universe with its own logic of movement, transformation, and encounter.

World-building panorama — landscapes, interiors, musicians, and cultural fragments sharing one visual language along the journey
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Scenic System

Cultural elements are translated into modular objects, programs, and spatial components that can enter, disappear, recombine, and transform throughout the journey.

Space is treated not as a static composition, but as a system capable of continuous scenic transformation.

Scenic system panorama — modular objects, creatures, and balloons entering and recombining across the mountain landscape
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Sequence & Transformation

A detailed journey timetable maps how objects, programs, and cultural references move between locations and transform through exchange.

Each element is coded by time, place, and transfer path, turning the journey into a legible sequence of spatial and cultural transformations.

Journey timetable panorama — the train elevation with coded cabins mapping how objects and programs transfer between locations
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04

A World at Human Scale

Rather than presenting the world from a single fixed viewpoint, the panorama unfolds through movement.

Windows, frames, foregrounds, and distant scenes control what is revealed, concealed, and discovered along the journey.

Human-scale panorama — passengers, corridors, and the Harmless Dojo seen from inside the moving train
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The audience does not simply look at the world.They move through it.

Sky layer of the full panorama — the landscape world above the line
The full train elevation — ride the whole journey before the credits
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Spatial DesignLeo
Production DesignEffa
Design EngineeringLila
StudioExl Studio — LA · HK