Perception in architecture
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This document discusses how different spaces can evoke different emotions in people. It explores research from fields like psychology, architecture, and environmental behavior studies that have sought to define and explain the emotional impacts of space. While studies show spaces influence emotions, it is still difficult to precisely determine how architecture induces specific feelings. The document aims to establish a methodology to better understand the connection between space and human emotions, in order to inform future architectural design. The goal is to create more pleasant environments for people.
Perception in architecture
- 1. PERCEPTIONARCHITECTUREINS P A C E S
- 2. Different researches in the fields of psychology, behavioral studies, E-B studies, architecture and other fields have tried to define and explain the emotional impacts space has over a person. Studies show that different spaces evoke different emotions, yet it is still hard to tell exactly how architecture induces them. Conclusions have been drawn from several different research fields in order to establish a methodology for exploring the connection between space and human feelings. This is to produce more scientific knowledge for the field in the future, using tools of computation and simulations. This study will enhance our capabilities to create more pleasant environments – a primary goal for designers, architects and urban planners. INTRODUCTION ALSON/ PAGE 1
- 3. PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SPACES Space conveys both physiological and psychological effects. • Physiologically, it contributes to illusion s of size. Filled space seems larger than empty space. • Spatial distance through which lines travel, as well as their angles, contributes to inaccurate perceptions of their length. • Psychologically, large, unbroken spaces are serene, yet bold and dramatic. Small, broken spaces suggest delicacy and complexity. • Divisions into long narrow vertical spaces will heighten, lengthen the space. • Divisions into horizontal sections will shorten and widen the space. • It provides rest and relief in patter, a visual interval similar to rest in music and pause in speech. • Appears behind shape this pushes the shape forward. • Because it is less dense, more airy or hollow that the shape it surrounds and gives the shape buoyancy. • The cues that make enclose space appear solid are advancing curs. These cues expand, create depth, and increase apparent distance between foreground and background. HARSHITHA/ PAGE 1
- 4. • Form is a term that is used to denote the formal structure of a work. • Form suggests reference to both internal structures and external outline and the principle that gives unity to the whole . • Forms are created through different shapes, it is the principle aspect by which we identify and categorize forms . • Forms also have relational properties that govern the pattern and composition of elements. • Surfaces : In the transition from shapes to planes to forms of volume is the realm of surfaces. • Regular forms and irregular forms : Regular forms refers to those whose parts are related to one another in a consistent and orderly manner. • Irregular forms are those whose parts are dissimilar in nature and are related in an inconsistent manner. FORM AND ORDER ADITI / PAGE 1 YA H A R A B O AT C L U B
- 5. ADITI / PAGE 1 Philharmonic hall , Berlin Coonley playhouse ,Illinois IRREGULAR FORMS REGULAR FORMS
- 6. ADITI / PAGE 1 Courtyard house project Mies van de Rohe - irregular forms within a regular field IRREGULAR FORMS WITHIN REGULAR FEILD Mosque of Sultan Hassan , Egypt REGULAR FORMS WITH IRREGULAR COMPOSITION
- 7. ADITI / PAGE 1 • Transformation of form All forms can be interpreted as transformations of the primary solids, variations which are generated by the manipulation of one or more dimensions by the addition or subtraction of elements . o Dimensional transformations o Additive transformations o Subtractive transformations CENTRALIZED FORM GRID FORM LINEAR FORM RADIAL FORM
- 8. BOUBA- KIKI EFFECT ANOUSHKA / PAGE 1
- 9. ABSTRACT FORMS AND SPACES No one likes art per art. You like it because you like the meaning, the firm, appearance, the message it conveys, the memories they evoke, the feeling they portray and make you feel as well. Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual reference. Thinking in terms of abstract art your being asked to stop thinking and start experiencing what you feel. Architecture evolved into from highly ornamental structures to simpler and more expressive ones through abstraction in their forms. ANOUSHKA / PAGE 1
- 10. M A X X I M U S E U M , R O M E , I T A L Y ANOUSHKA / PAGE 1
- 11. EFFECT OF SPACES ON HUMAN MIND AASHI & ARCHANA / PAGE 1 Architecture can impact or affect human behavior in positive and negative ways, it can affect the health and well-being of humans, as well as human performance. Humans spend the majority of their lives in built environments and less of their lives in natural environments; therefore, it is inevitable that architecture regardless of whether it is residential or commercial architectural designs will indeed impact or affect human The direct and indirect consequences of architectural designs can either be functionally appropriate and aesthetically pleasing to humans; therefore, fostering positive behavior or functionally inappropriate by imposing restrictions on behavior. For instance, in regards to certain commercial architectural designs, the buildings were not aesthetically pleasing, had poor or no natural lighting and no open spaces; which had a negative effect on behavior and employee morale. In these types of architectural designs employees felt confined and crowded. BAD LIGHTING GOOD LIGHTING
- 12. Even commercial designs with natural lighting or varying views of nature affect the psychological well-being of individuals. Especially, designs with open spaces with windows on every side of the building. Each particular design has varying psychological effects on each inhabiting individual. Commercial designs that incorporate aspects of nature is conducive to the psychological well-being of individuals because nature has the ability to lower stress levels. A courtyard in front of the building with numerous trees and waterfalls gives some sense of nature to the buildings inhabitants.
- 13. • Building scale refers to building elements and details as they proportionally relate to each other and to humans • As we all know by know there two types of scales mainly a. MONUMANTAL SCALE : Buildings, statues, and memorials are constructed in a scale larger than life as a social/cultural signal that the subject matter is also larger than life. b. HUMAN SCALE : is the set of physical qualities, and quantities of information, characterizing the human body, its motor, sensory, or mental capabilities. • Both monumental and human scales give us way different feelings mentally, emotionally an even physically . • For example in MANHATTAN of NY , one can find a large number of huge tall buildings grouped together this might make a person feel inferior . CHARITHA / PAGE 1 EFFECT OF SCALE
- 14. REACTIONS TO SPACES SIGHT The man in course of his space travels, needs the body messages to ensure the stability of their visual world. Not having this body information, the human being looses the connection with the world. HEARING Sound is invisible but has the power to change the space characteristics we occupy . Building always have sound; we feel pleasure and protection when the body discovers its resonance in it. SMELL The nostrils awaken a forgotten image and fall into a vivid dream. The nose makes the eyes remember. TOUCH While tactile space separates the observer from objects, visual spaces separates the object from each other. The perceptual world is guided by the touch, being more immediate and welcoming than the world guided by sight. HARSHITH / PAGE 1
- 15. • The word emotion is often applied to a wide variety of phenomena, such as passions , sentiments , temperament and moods. • The impact a space has on a person's mood is huge: not how it looks, but how we feel it, through the way it allows us to act, think, behave and reflect. • A space elicits different emotions , like letting u feel small or big, or give us a safe feeling or unsafe one. • At times it also evokes a sense of spiritual mood. Someone may feel calm, other person may feel uncomfortable. EMOTIONS TOWARDS SPACES Most of the people still feel unsafe and scary in a dark alley. Alley-it is a narrow lane or path often reserved for pedestrians, usually runs between, behind, or within two buildings Parallel walls, Freedom park. It gives us a sense of enclosure and protection DHARNI & AMULYA / PAGE 1
- 16. Monumental scale makes feels us feel small in comparison The purpose of monumental scale is to glorify god, individual or the state When a person is in a space with a high ceiling They will tend to think more freely, abstractly, whereas a person in a room with a low ceiling might feel claustrophobic. DHARNI & AMULYA / PAGE 1
- 17. AUWAD / PAGE 1 BUILDING IS A MACHINE ABLE TO PRODUCE SOME HUMAN REACTIONS PREDETERMINED -Peter Zumthor