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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/E5A5B621-838D-4A5F-852B-E305B3EF2129 | ||
| Year | 2024 | ||
| Type of Item | Diploma Thesis Project | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | Aikaterini-Anna Giannisi-Vermpocht, Maria Matthaiou, "Designing the atmosphere: The architecture of phenomenology", Diploma Thesis Project, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2024 https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.103447 | ||
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The concept of spatial perception has occupied many architects and has been the subject of study in various fields directly or indirectly related to the field of architecture. This present research, through the experiential and perceptual spatial approach, focuses on specific theories that challenge the morphocratic and rationalist methods of understanding and managing the architectural space. The aim of the research is to study these representative theories and to understand the spatial planning of the atmosphere. In the first phase it examines the theories of existential phenomenology, in the second phase it focuses on the concept of place, as a specific territorial landscape and as a specific cultural context and in the third phase it focuses in the synthetic features of phenomenology such as light, materiality, atmosphere, physicality and direct bodily experience in relation to the senses. The theoretical research is supported by particular examples in architecture in which through design and principles of composition lead to a qualitative understanding of the multidimensional spatial phenomenon and thus to a more human-centered design. It concludes that it is essential, for an architect, to be mindful of what activates the senses and experiential spatial experience, rather than the intensive, not morphological elements that constitute the atmosphere of space. Regardless of whether a space or an object are adequately designed or not, they do not activate our interest only with their forms and functions, but by the feelings they convey. In the field of architecture, this appears with the use of space, the textures of the objects and the materials, and the sounds that bring back memories. Lastly, the research analyzes projects by architects Peter Zumthor and RCR Arquitectes that successfully represent all of the mentioned above.
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