Valencia Prisha Cassandra Malonzo
About
Prisha is a designer interested in shaping spaces that reflect real human experiences.
Her approach explores how spaces can hold emotion, uncertainty and everyday life while remaining clear, purposeful and adaptable to different users. She is particularly interested in how spatial design can support different ways of being rather than impose fixed expectations.
Through her work, Prisha aims to create environments that are intuitive, responsive and grounded in lived experience. She values clarity in design while allowing space for interpretation, enabling users to engage with spaces in personal and meaningful ways.
This project reimagines the church as a fragmented spiritual landscape, where a singular processional axis is broken into a dispersed labyrinthine field.
Form is generated through movement, producing ambiguous volumes where programme is encountered and experienced. Ritual is no longer tied to a single space but can occur across multiple locations.
Seven archetypes are scattered across the landscape and discovered through navigation rather than direction. A concealed spine allows the priest to move unseen, appearing as body, voice, or sound, while the congregation engages the space on their own terms, anchored by faith to seek.
The project holds both uncertainty and belief.
Wherever you may be, you will be met.
Malachi moves through the church without fixed position or constant visibility, engaging through voice, sound and partial presence. Rituals are dispersed, allowing both priest and congregation to participate at varying distances and intensities rather than within a singular, directed order.
The architecture replaces hierarchy with a fluid field shaped by movement, light and encounter, where faith is experienced as something personal, uncertain and evolving rather than imposed.