Framing Emotion: Through Sensory Architectural Apertures in Maritime Cultural Building Part 2 Dissertation 2026 Jessica Zacaria Beirut Arab University - Tripoli campus | Lebanon Framing Emotion Through Sensory Architectural Apertures in Maritime Cultural Buildings investigates how architecture can create meaningful emotional connections between people and place through the deliberate design of apertures. While many contemporary cultural buildings function as isolated objects, disconnected from their sensory surroundings, this research proposes architectural apertures as perceptual tools capable of framing experience, strengthening visual connectedness, and enhancing emotional engagement.Grounded in theories of human perception, sensory architecture, and multisensory design, the study explores how light, framing, spatial sequencing, and visual positioning influence the way users perceive and remember architectural space. Through comparative analysis of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, V&A Dundee, and the Grand Egyptian Museum, the research identifies how aperture placement, scale, geometry, and sequential revelation can evoke anticipation, tension, discovery, reflection, and release.The findings are synthesized into a design framework that redefines apertures as active mediators between architecture, landscape, and human experience. The framework establishes design principles including multidirectional axial alignment, layered visual perspectives, sequential view revelation, and context-responsive aperture geometry.Applied to a maritime cultural setting in Anfeh, Lebanon, the research demonstrates how sensory apertures can transform coastal architecture into an emotionally resonant narrative journey that strengthens cultural identity, enhances visual connectivity to the surrounding landscape, and creates memorable human-centered experiences. The project ultimately positions sensory architectural apertures as a powerful design strategy for future cultural and maritime architecture. Tutor(s) Eslam Elsamahy