Sense-a-tecture: An Exploration into Architectural Sensory Experience and Environmental Learning
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Abstract
Our world is built up of individual parts. Each part is unique by itself, but it is the process of bringing them together that makes up our experience as a whole. There is more to a forest than the texture of bark. We use our senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell; to interpret the world around us. Each sense, has its own take on our perception of experience.
Without one, we lose a part of what it is like to perceive the world. Each place offers a multi-sensory experience, but each experience is only enhanced by the input of data.
This input of data can be the driving force in design. The process of “external stimuli producing internal conflict” is not only an element of human anatomy, but also the tools we use to design a building. Creating a building that is adaptive to input can develop a more flexible environment.