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.
Place is a meaningful location socially and geographically that is carved by people, communities and culture; and which gives place an identity. It ties humans together with the environment and is defined through distinctive physical and socially qualities. Though it’s different to spaces that are just located boundaries that counterpoint place.
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Space is something everyone experiences. However Eliade points out that different people have different reactions to the spatial aspect of the world. A profane man may experience space/spaces homogenously, “ no break qualitatively differentiates the various parts of its mass.” (pg. 22). For an example a profane man might classify a mall and church in the same way because he sees no religious value within them, but he then could regard a hospital sacred because that may be the place of his birth (in page 24 Eliade such sacredness is worthless). A religious man, on the other hand, could look at that same space, a mall and a church, and differentiate the sacred space, also known as the cosmos, from the profane space, also known as the chaos. In this case the religious man would classify the church as sacred place because it has some holy value and the mall as the profane space because it has no holy value at all. In clearer terms the the profane space is h...
"the question of space and place within the realm of spatiality is ultimately not jsut about whether the question of "where" maters in the way that "when" does in explaining "how" and even "why" something happens" (p1. space and place) the purpose of this introduction is to introduce and examin the terms which encompass the investigation into the thinking about the monumentalization and politics of space.
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
As Foucault ([1967] 1984) points out, human beings are obsessed more with the notion of time (pondered as dynamic and diverse) than space (considered as homogenous and empty), whereas, the new epoch, which in Foucault’s sense is the modern time after the nineteenth century, especially requires attention on the knowledge of the space, because now human beings experience the world “less that of a long life developing through time, than that of a network that connects points and intersects with its own skein”. Yet this argument does not “entail the denial of time”, but acknowledge the “fatal intersection of time with space”. Space in Foucault’s mind is by no means void, but inhabits
A place, for me, is somewhere that I am familiar with and I recognize it in some way as my own special geographic location. It is somewhere I am emotionally attached to and it is a place that I wish to remain at. I personally feel that it has taken me years to achieve this particular comprehension about where for certain that place is for me in my life, and to make out why I feel a certain way about being within the walls of my own home. I have now come to realize that my home is where my heart will always truly be, because I believe it is the only place where I will always be loved without
“Architecture is the art of modifying space to serve a need through the fulfillment of specific functions.”
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...