"Architectural psychology can be described as a branch of environmental or ecological psychology. This deals with the psychological processes of the interaction between man and his environment, as for example spatial perception, spatial thinking, orientation behaviour, or spatial experience, territorial behaviour, living requirements and satisfaction, local identity."
- Oberascher, Leonhard http://leoncolor.comFound this interesting websites regarding environmental psychology. It was stated there,
"Understanding principles about environmental psychology will help architects to design with greater awareness."but problem is, how many people among us are being aware about the existence of environmental psychology? and let's say you do, how are you going to imply that into your design? then say that you did imply, there will still be a minor group who disagree with your approach. Why? Because design is a very subjective thing. It can be anything to someone and nothing to anyone.
Any way, let's put aside this judgmental issues aside and back to my topic. Found a new analogy for phenomenology in architecture for further understanding regarding it. Hmm..I guess phenomenology in architecture can put in this way:
Phenomenology in architecture = A restaurant
Situation 1: A creepy restaurant (due to bad light ventilation) + bad odor + awful food + dust everywhere + construction undergoing at next door
Situation 2: A comfortable restaurant (good light ventilation) + aromatic smell of coffee + peaceful surrounding + comfy seats
Well I guess it's pretty obvious which is the good and which is the bad one right? This is due to the first situation puts you into a negative surrounding which evoked the negative senses and emotions in you and leads to a negative memory for you of the place. On the other hand, Situation 2 pretty much a 'heaven-like', ideal places for you to enjoy your meal. Definitely you'll pick situation 2 for your most preferred restaurant right?
Last but not least, came across this article HERE debating the importance of tactile perception in an architecture during the search of my case studies. It introduces quite some interesting findings and evidence of the importance of tactile perception and I found them quite interesting. Hope you can have a good read through the article and share with me what is your opinion about that?
Thanks for the link to the good article. A lot of use would agree with what was written and the case studies that were referred to makes for a compelling case; especially the one about premature babies healing and growing faster when in constant contact with another human. This reminds me of an article that came out some time about a very premature baby which doctors said was not going to survive. But the mother kept the baby on her chest and held her all the time and the baby eventually made it. This goes to show how little we know about the importance of touch and hapticity. Keep your research going and the case studies you are finding will aid you a great deal with your writing.
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