PLEASURE: THE REALISATION OF PLACE THROUGH THE SENSES
“The pleasure of space. This cannot be put into words, it is unspoken. Approximately: it is a form of experience - the "presence of absence"; exhilarating differences between the plane and the cavern, between the street and your living room; symmetries and dissymetries emphasizing the spatial properties of my body: right and left, up and down. Taken to this extreme, the pleasure of space leans toward the poetics of the unconscious, to the edge of madness”. Tschumi (2009),
INTRODUCTION
different individuals experience different forms of pleasure given the same situation, this makes the experience of pleasure subjective. The way people perceive spaces is very personal, a space that is pleasing and attractive to one might be depressing and uninviting to the other, this is because people are diverse and seek different forms of pleasure. Pleasurable experiences are usually associated with infinite human desires, pleasure can also be associated as a means of satisfying both biological drives such as eating, sex, sleeping, and social drives such as wealth, recognition, success.
The issue of space and place has often been a controversial one as the two are described or defined relative to each other. Place surpasses space when meaning is attached to that space. Sime (1986) argues that place as opposed to space, suggests a strong emotional tie an individual attributes to a certain physical location whether permanent or temporary which gives that space character. According to Tschumi (2009) The pleasure of space cannot be put into words, it is unspoken. It is the form of experience. In order to attain pleasure in a space one must experience it first, it is through these experie...
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...o the sensorial qualities. Architecture heavily focuses on one sense - the visual sense that it regards as most important and other senses are unfortunately often neglected, this is unfortunate because it is through these sense that architecture can be said to have profound effect. According to ---Lehman, ()------- 'Architectural space is about layering for all of the senses. Like a musical composition, spatial features come together into a symphony for occupants to experience. Bringing a space to life implies that architectural function and form is not just primarily for the visual sense. By engaging all of the senses, form and function may be more fully expressed so occupants can have deeper, more meaningful moments. It is thus through these sensory qualities of a space that memories, fantasies and places are created hence elevating the architectural experience.
...lves the confirmation of the boundaries of the social world through the sorting of things into good and bad categories. They enter the unconscious through the process of socialisation.’ Then, “the articulation of space and its conception is a reminder that time boundaries are inextricably connected to exclusionary practises which are defined in refusing to adhere to the separation of black experience.”
There are two important areas in this research- territoriality and use of personal space, all while each have an important bearing on the kinds of messages we send as we use space. Standing at least three feet apart from someone is a norm for personal space.
An individual’s ‘Sense of Place’ is predominantly their place of belonging and acceptance in the world, may it be through a strong physical, emotional or spiritual connection. In Tim Winton’s novel ‘The Riders”, the concept of Sense of Place is explored through the desperate journey of its protagonist, Fred Scully. Scully’s elaborate search for identity throughout the novel is guided and influenced by the compulsive love he feels for his wife Jennifer and their family morals, the intensity of hope and the destruction it can cause and the nostalgic nature of Winton’s writing. Two quotes which reflect the ideals of a person’s Sense of Place are “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.’(Aldous Huxley) and “It is not down in any map. True places never are.” (Herman Melville). Huxley and Melville’s statements closely resemble Fred Scully’s journey and rectify some of his motivations throughout the text.
“Form follows function.” Every great Modern architect thought, designed by and breathed these very words. Or at least, their design principles evolved from them. Modern architects Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Pierre Chareau, and Rudolf Schindler to name a few believed that the function determined the space whether the space was solely for a particular purpose or they overlapped to allow for multiple uses. Form didn’t just follow function, function defined the space. By focusing on the relationship between the architecture and the interior elements, Chareau’s Maison de Verre expanded the idea of functionalism to include not only the architecture but also the space it creates and how people function within that space.
Space should welcome both silence and speech: Most people believe that words are the only way of exchange in teaching and learning. But silence gives us the opportunity to reflect upon what we and others have said and heard. In a sense silence is a sort of speech that we have with ourselves, a sort of monologue we have with ourselves. A conversation that allows you to reflect, think or talk to yourself.
either the physical or the imagined, into a “both/and logic” and the ontological trialectic of “Spatiality-Historicality-Sociality”. Similar to the perceived space in Lefebvre’s term, the Firstspace refers to the real, and physical space, as the geographical site shown in the map, while the Secondspace regards the space as symbolic and poetic. The imagined geography, like utopia, tends to become the “real geography”, with the image or representation coming to define and order the reality. Arguing even while the two ways of thinking are at odds, they also “embody and nourish” each other, Soja protests against the binary between the First- and Secondspace, and puts forward the idea of the Thirdspace, as the mergence of the two. Favouring the trialectic ontology of Historicality-Socialcality-Spatiality, Thirdspace denotes the belief that the historical, social and spatial are interviewing with each other. On the other hand, the significance of Thirdspace lies on its defences against “totalling closure and all permanent constructions” and the tendency of always opening up for more dynamics and possibilities. The notion of Thirdspace makes more sense in the modern context of globalisation, although Homi Bhabha’s employment of this term slightly deviates from Soja’s definition: the former
“Architecture is the art of modifying space to serve a need through the fulfillment of specific functions.”
Architects design spaces that are meant to be inhabited, places that are meant to be interacted with. Humans need shelter from the elements, protection from nature’s worst privations and a place to feel secure. But why is it that structures built from inanimate parts can stir within us such strong emotional responses? Responses that can vary from a sense of home to one of dread and foreboding!
One of the most recognized visions of space culture is this romantic ideal of space being the final frontier. This romantic ideal connects to neo-global-colonialism, being able to conquer and colonized space, which gives Americans the acumen that they are the Super world power that imposes domination. For example, in Tom Wolfe’s book the Right Stuff, shows astronauts as womanizer, intrepid men, who are battling and trying to conquer the final frontier, in the space race against Soviet Union. Wolfe delineates these astronauts as heroes and space exploration as a necessary and powerful mission.
2014). Places organize our experience of the world and manage our relationship with other people.
In Tuan’s reading, space is not simply an isolated aspect in our life, more often it is significant in terms of connections to the wider world and people. He suggested that space can be affected by the factors existed in the society, which directly influences the atmosphere of the space, relatively, our cognition to the spaciousness and crowding is also affected by it. Space and spacious itself is impersonal, it will only become something more when we implanted our own value and
Scale too has been greatly debated, often not even having been associated with space and place. the common use of both words have lead to an alternate understanding. one which may be associated with the scale of time. the usage of the word place have come to be associated with the local and traditional and space within the global. From this it can be deduced that place has a sense of nostalgia to an effect of which the word stimulated emotions of regression and thus reactionary. space then to the other end of the scale, radical. (pg.7 space and
Nowadays, architecture has been a part of our life. Architecture depends on order, eurhythmy, symmetry, propriety, and economy. It is an application of thinking. Order gives due measure to the members of a work considered separately, and symmetrical agreement to the proportions of the whole. It is an adjustment according to quantity. By this I mean the selection of modules from the members of the work itself and, starting from these individual parts of members, constructing the whole work to correspond. Arrangement includes the putting of things in their proper places and the elegance of effect, which is due to adjustments appropriate to the character of the work. Its forms of expression are these: ground plan, elevation, and perspective. A ground plan is made by the proper successive use of compasses and rule, through which we get outlines for the plane surfaces of buildings. An elevation is a picture of the front of a building, set upright and properly drawn in the proportions of the contemplated work. Perspective is the method of sketching a front with the sides withdrawing into the background, the lines all meeting in the centre of a circle. All three come of reflexion and invention. Reflexion
I think we all have a beautiful place in our mind. I have a wonderful place that made me happy a lot of times, years ago. But sometimes I think that I am the only person who likes this place and I'm asking myself if this place will be as beautiful as I thought when I will go back to visit it again. Perhaps I made it beautiful in my mind.
Studying space is important in sociology because it is closely related to human activity in their society. For example, spatial sociologists study how natural space is changed into social space in the society, how individuals and collectivities use it, what kind of forces and processes affect their usage, and how natural space and social space are related to the forces and the processes, the individuals and the collectivities (Gans 2002). And spatial sociology can be interpreted by applying some concepts to explain what is going on natural or social spaces (Gans 2002). Those concepts are divided into land use, land value, location, density, propinquity, neighborhood effec...