2.2 Atmosphere in context of architecture:
Atmosphere is an immediate form of physical perception, and is recognized through emotional sensibility. It is the very initial and immediate experience of space. Architecture is not merely from it is all about how human perceive that space, how they experience a space, how it became part of their memory, how the space affect the human emotions and this is summed up in one word that is “ Atmosphere”.
2.2.1 Understanding Architectural atmosphere: is thus defined largely by variable contexts. To create architecture, in response to atmosphere, the building must situate itself within context, taking a position on the physical environment and intensifying how the inhabitant perceives and thus responds to that context. Hence, the question posed in the title of this chapter; Or more specifically;
Perception of Space (Physical +
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Elements described by Zumthor and Pallasma tells us how the senses can be addressed. Atmosphere is the sensorial quality of space and it can be achieved when we imagine oneself in the space to be designed(Zumthor P.2006). We need to realize how the user is going to experience the space and what would be the emotions evoked by the space and for that we need to know the intangible aspects associated with the architecture. The use of light, shadow, material, sound, space quality, scale need to be address first, form is secondary thing and it can be done at end.
The figure (5) shows the relation between human and architecture and how human perceive a space.
Through the literature review that experience in architecture is result of individual human perception and quality of spaces created by the architect. Experience is created when the space is designed for creating a sense of place keeping in mind the user requirements and how the user will perceive that space as depicted in the figure
allow architecture to take on its own form, addressing each place but at the same time alluding to
In particular, the researcher examines how the architectural program reflect the needs of the cultures that utilized it, the features that distinctly represent it, features borrowed from other cultures, and how these architectures fit into
Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and
Unit 2 Written Assignment AHIST 1401 UoPeople Abstract This essay will discuss the style and function of the Parthenon located in Athens and the Pantheon in Rome and how each serve as a typical example of its culture. The similarities and differences between ancient Greece and Rome that are seen in these two buildings will also be discussed.
In Wright and An alto's houses, a powerful sense of insides is generate by opacity. Which, in Falling water is express in roughly dressed stone masonry walls and, in Villa Mairea. By white-painted, solid walls. The transparency of glass windows in both houses thereby connect the two. In both houses, the architects created a strong sense of insideness yet, at the same time, devised ways to connect inside and outside and thereby create a robust continuity between the two. This inside-outside relationship can be translate into environmental and architectural experience in four different ways: (1) in-betweeness; (2) interpenetration generated by inside; (3) interpenetration generated by outside; and (4)
The book consists of twelve chapters that propose this idea that designers should explore the nature of our senses’ response to the spatial built forms that people invest their time in. It tries to cover a specific topic in each chapter that in order to deconstruct the book, it is necessary to cover each chapter individually.
Everyday we live and move through spaces without realizing the influence they can have on our daily lives. Built environments are designed to directly affect behaviour and attitudes in a specific and intended way; this can be referred to as architectural determinism (Marmot 2002). Almost all architectural patterns use the physical arrangement of elements, and materials to influence behavior. This can range from placing design elements in specific places to encourage or discourage people’s interaction with them, placing them to prevent access to a specific area, or placing them to direct or
The entryways of the building come from four different sides and meet in the middle. The overall shape of the building creates different views and facades. The building was not created just on the looks of it; it is made up of a three dimensional, stimulating, tactile human thing.
As suggested by the title, this piece of literature attempts to highlight the importance of sensory experience in architecture. It is indeed a response to what the author terms as ‘ocularcentrism’ of Modern Architecture. Ocularcentrism is the act of prioritizing visual stimuli to all other sensory stimuli available to a human perception. He quotes famous German poet, Goethe, in his defense, “the hands want to see, the
Architectural works have been conceived from ingenuity and principles accumulated since the dawn of time when we lived in primitive caves and sought shelter for survival. Architects interpret these conventions and use the physical environment to bring them to life using tectonic and stereotomic expression. Tectonics is defined as “The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed" ("Tectonics" 1913). Baeza (2009) further explains tectonics architecture to be “a structural system of knots and joints in which the construction is articulated”. Conversely, Francesco Cacciatore describes stereotomics as “the gradual removal of matter from an initial shape” (Cacciatore 2011). Stereotomic and tectonics
Our relationship to most of the buildings that we see everyday changes over time because of various kinds of reasons.
“ Architecture organizes and structures space for us, and its interiors and the objects enclosing and inhabiting its rooms can facilitate or inhibit our activities by the way they use this language”(Lawson pg.6).
Discussing various approaches to perceiving meaning within architecture (understanding architecture as an expression of underlying social orders; treating architecture as a result of the Zeitgeist, and finally; interpreting architecture as an independent sign system comprised of its own grammar, syntax and ways of meaning), Whyte claims architecture can be understood as an analogy to language. Subsequently, Whyte claims that simply interpreting meaning with architecture is challenging due to the complexity of a building. To truly understand an architectural meaning, Whyte states a number of perspective shifts must occur, ensuring all design stages, from concept through to construction is accounted for due to the ever evolving nature of a project and therefore
Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes, their composition, the spaces they create and, the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract. These properties can only be described using words; the meanings behind the architecture and the stories that can be told about it. The context, its cultural background and its function also affects how we view architecture. The question is, what
The purpose of architecture itself is to improve human life. Due to its extreme environments, living in space or on