Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Architecture Department, Art & Architecture Faculty, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) of Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Master of Architecture, Architecture and Urbanism Faculty, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Abstract
By the rise of human advancements in the era of the digital technology revolution, Illustration in all aspects of human life, especially in the creation of artwork and architecture, surpassed. In such a way, the focus of attention is on the eyes and sight of the human being. This has been expanded in the process of designing and creating space. The illustration is the basic principle of architectural design, and the neglecting of other senses reduces the level of human perception and consciousness from the space. Accordingly, it can be questioned: What is the relation of the body with space? What the role of lived experience in the process of creating a place is? In this research, it has been attempted to answer these questions based on the philosophical basis of interpretation with the qualitative approach. The results of the discussion show that the components of the design process and the creation of place are found to be eternal, based on "eternal life dimensions of man" including his " lived experience", "fictitious forms in embodied memory," and "Collective and individual memories". In presentation of design process model, creating place, while responding to the practical aspect, immediately begins its journey into the world of imagination, interdisciplinary imagination, myths, and the metaphorical meaning of the presence of man, which is in the light of his consciousness, and is based on his experience of life, and all his scientific and professional skills to achieve the best respond.
Highlights
The Status of Lived Experience from the Perspective of Philosophy of Body in Process of Designing and Creating Place
Ali Akbari1, Mahdieh Niroomand Shishavan2
1 Architecture Department, Art & Architecture Faculty, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. (Corresponding author) E-mail:Akbari.iausr.ac.ir@gmail.com
2 Master of Architecture, Architecture and Urbanism Faculty, Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: Mahdieh_ni@yahoo.com
Abstract
By the rise of human advancements in the era of the digital technology revolution, Illustration in all aspects of human life, especially in the creation of artwork and architecture, surpassed. In such a way, the focus of attention is on the eyes and sight of the human being. This has been expanded in the process of designing and creating space. The illustration is the basic principle of architectural design, and the neglecting of other senses reduces the level of human perception and consciousness from the space. Accordingly, it can be questioned: What is the relation of the body with space? What the role of lived experience in the process of creating a place is? In this research, it has been attempted to answer these questions based on the philosophical basis of interpretation with the qualitative approach. The results of the discussion show that the components of the design process and the creation of place are found to be eternal, based on "eternal life dimensions of man" including his " lived experience", "fictitious forms in embodied memory," and "Collective and individual memories". In presentation of design process model, creating place, while responding to the practical aspect, immediately begins its journey into the world of imagination, interdisciplinary imagination, myths, and the metaphorical meaning of the presence of man, which is in the light of his consciousness, and is based on his experience of life, and all his scientific and professional skills to achieve the best respond.
Keywords: Multi-sensory Perception, Philosophy of Body, Lived Experience, Architecture of Senses, Creating Place.
Introduction
The relation between the human body, the perception of the created space and the creation of space, is a longstanding paradigm in the history of the architecture of various nations that can be studied in any time and place. Accordingly, in the present era, in digitalism revolution, the relationship between the dimensions of the physical presence of human and the dimensions of the physical presence of the built space in the perception of that space and the ability to create it, is a problem. The purpose of this research is to analyze the status of the body and the embodied lived experience in the process of creating a place so that in today's illustrative world we could redefine a process of creating an atmosphere based on the objective realities of the materiality and physicality of the world.
1- Research Method
The philosophical basis of research here is interpretative, and the qualitative research approach has been used as the approach to this particular field. In this research, we tried to answer the research questions based on content analysis of theories and phenomenological interpretations of Philosophers, architects and architectural theorists. Finally, we tried to introduce components of a new design process for creating new human spaces.
2- Literature Review
The philosophical background of the research is investigated in the following parts: 1. Philosophy of body and lived experience, 2. Body and mind mechanisms, 3. Body and built space, 4. the proportion of art and architecture with the body throughout history. Historic studies in these four sections have been analyzed in the following historical periods: classic Are, renascence Era, enlightenment era, Victorian (Queen Victoria's period) Late 19th century, modern and postmodern era.
3- Ocularcentrism in contemporary art
According to the experts, one of the reasons of ocularcentrism in Western civilization has been the progressive development of illustrative techniques, easy use of them and their abilities for visual knowledge and transfers it. The invention of perspective projections in the Renaissance provided powerful visual representations of visual perception. Like any technology, drawing a perspective influences our perceptions of the environment; and perhaps more strongly, it changes our cosmic vision. The architectural design process also uses perspective projections, and later photography and realistic rendering technologies to analyze existing spaces and designing new species.
4- Lived Experienced in Design Process and Creating Place
4-1 The authenticity of Full Perception and Presence in Space
It is so important that we understand and believe that the atmosphere of any place is not the place itself, nor the objects inside that place, but all its sensory features. We understand these objects through the light reflected on their surface or through the voices they create or reflect. We feel their shape through our hands and the smells they create. On the other hand, we understand the lights, sounds, smells, tastes, texture, and so on because of their characteristics. This is a dual understanding of perception that is based on the concept of the atmosphere.
4-2 The originality of imagination and memory in the creating of places
The experience of human from any place or his memory of being present in any built space makes the field of the formation of imaginary shapes in his mind and this is the most important stage of fictitious action. The experience of the atmosphere of any created space by the audience depends on the extent to which it affects his senses and lived experience in that space. Although the architectural space is touchable, embodied, and tangible and belongs to the material and objective world, the essence of imagination is based on this material and objective memory.
5- Conclusion
In the new manufacturing processes based on digital technology, the most important is the lack of metaphorical presence. Paying too much attention to the computer leads to complete neglect of the living experience of space, body awareness and space perception based on all five senses. The result is that as fast as the speed of creating form and space in digital technology is, the speed of the process of forgetting this architecture is also possible. If today the historical architecture and its favorable spatial experience are spoken and at the same time criticized some perceptual dimensions of modern architecture and urban planning, this means that the perception of space with the senses, experiences, and memories of life in that space and human imagination, are important. The relationship between the human body and architecture was studied during different periods. Since the experience of the artwork and the architectural space is the result of the interaction between our world and our embodied memories; hence, the entire art is split from the human body. Therefore, if we want the experience of meaning and the creation of an everlasting architectural sense, it is essential that the work of architecture be like in the world of human experience. In drawing the design process model, the presentation of design solutions must be understood after the precise understanding of the program, the design of the design site, the transcendental and desirability of physical planning, the needs and desires of the creation of a new form and space that can satisfy the employer's will, the general demand of society, their needs and desires. , While responding to the practical point of view, immediately begins its departure to the world of imagination, the medieval fantasy, myths, and the metaphorical meaning of the presence of man, which begins in the imagination of his consciousness in terms of his biological experience.
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