Dissertations / Theses: 'Architecture and the senses'

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Wansten, Jamie. "Back to your senses." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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O'Connell, Erin K. "Senses of Place." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276954023.

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Shin, Taeseop, and Stephan Hernandez. "Making kin : landscape, material and senses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129849.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2020
Cataloged from student-submitted thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 219).
This project proposes a series of architecture and landscape interventions in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Koreas. The Korean war divided Korea into North and South. It divided their territories, and in doing so it also divided many of its families. During the seventy years since the war, the number of survivors of these family separations has gradually decreased through natural mortality, with only about 16 percent of those aged 80 or younger remaining as witnesses. In the next decade the memories of family ties across the DMZ may be lost forever. Very recently, in April 2019, the governments of North and South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to implement a new protocol that aims to ease the tension by requiring both countries to destroy all military outposts across the DMZ, and finally allowing the public to visit several places within the DMZ for the first time. The project started with collecting memories of some of the survivors of the war, traveling west to east across the DMZ. Interviews were conducted with members of families separated by the DMZ, and collecting material samples along the DMZ based on their memories. This preliminary research revealed that the landscapes of the DMZ were still triggering memories of their pre-war lives, over 70 years ago. Geography, materials, and other experiential elements figured strongly in the survivors' narratives. This project proposes architectural design for four different sites along the DMZ that are intended to foster new, non-familial kinship across the DMZ and based on our survivors' memories related to the landscape, material and sensory experience.
by Taeseop Shin [and] Stephan Hernandez.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture

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Chmelar, Albert P. "Integrating the Senses: An Architecture of Embodied Experience." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275666649.

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Muralidharan, Dilip. "Architecture for The Senses: A more-than visual approach to Museum Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554211453833306.

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Griffith, Ashley R. "Baking a Building: An Experiment In Activating the Senses." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491303753804295.

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Sugeta, Keiko 1969. "Branch Street Ryokan : relaxation through reactivating human senses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28260.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 56).
My thesis is a Japanese traditional Inn, called Ryokan. The is open to anyone seeking refuge from the rapid pace of urban life, including local residents and tourists, yet is limited to adults in order to keep quietness within. It is similar to a Bed & Breakfast in terms of person-to-person service, yet its emphasis is on the idea of reactivating human senses by offering an intimate experience with the surrounding nature through materials. The intention of my thesis is to explore an experience in Ryokan architect~re. The thesis introduces Ryokan architecture as a typology. Incorporating ritualistic Japanese inn traditions, the architecture is designed with a sense of order, which encourages guests to settle their state of mind. The inn investigates the notion of 'continuity of moments (in time)' through a manipulation of light and water as well as through materiality, which is to lure forgotten human senses. Communal bathing experience within the inn enhances stimulation to human sanity. Beacon Hill in Boston is selected as the site for the Ryokan. The site's existing condition is a 6000sq ft-vacant-lot. Although it is just one block-in from the very active and busy intersection of Charles and Beacon Street, the site offers quietness and tranquility. Given that I sensed the stark contrast between the very busy streets and the solitude of this site, I felt that there was an intriguing quality.
by Keiko Sugeta.
M.Arch.

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Angjeli, Anila. "Contented Architecture - In Search of Delight for All Senses." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9664.

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Contented Architecture : In search of delight for all senses is an attempt to discover and capture the delightful sensory experiences of the users in the architectural space. Architectural space is seen as an artistic space, that appeals to different senses. The project is a Bike Hotel in Old Town, Alexandria. The situation and orientation of the building on site, the program and the features altogether make it possible for bikers to experience the space through different senses. This assembly among other pleasant experiences offers those sensory experiences that counteract the bikers daily exhaustive activities. Their bodies and minds feel relaxed, revitalized and encouraged to achieve their next goals.
Master of Architecture

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Clark, Taylor Richard. "On Sensorial Encounters with Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35274.

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This is a study of the body and architecture, the way in which the two experience one another, the way in which one can inform the other. This thesis was centered around the consideration of the senses not as separate inputs, but as one harmonious quality of perception. The project began as an attempt to explore how the non-visual senses could inform the architectural gestation and developed into an exercise using the visual medium of drawings to illicit qualities beyond sight alone. The attempt to capture material quality through abstraction was likened to the search for the divine through our carnal existence on earth. The results attempted to express sensual qualities through a mixture of different media and their layering to demonstrate the development of the whole through the gestation and gradual realization of its fragments. A site in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia was chosen for its relationship to the tidal water of the Potomac River and the opportunities its previous life as a shipyard presented, as half of the site was excavated into the shoreline. The proposal of a spiritual home, a Cistercian monastery on a site that straddles land and water fit ideally with the theme of addressing materiality and abstract representation, the phsycial and spiritual, and the mind and body. Both the site and the program provided a fruitful counterpoint with which the thesis developed.
Master of Architecture

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Pitts, William Edward 1976. "Natural phenomena and the senses : linking memory and corporeal experience." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69432.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002.
Some ill. printed as leaves and folded.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).
How could the experience of our rituals be made more meaningful? Our experience of ritual exists as an exchange between our memory and natural phenomena in a place over time. These place specific phenomena are filtered by our senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight and balance before becoming part of our memory. It is the task of the architect to create place that heightens certain qualities of local phenomena in order to make more specific and meaningful our ritual s. Too often, today we are trapped in homogenized landscapes of ideas and visual images that overshadow our remaining senses. To allow for more meaningful and personal memory, we must look to total corporeal experience of phenomena in specific places. Slowing our physical actions, we allow all of our senses to engage the world around, and only then do we become more aware of our body and experience in that world. Ultimately, in better understanding our human corporeal and experiential roots we may feel both secure and inspired being part of a system that is far more pervasive and permanent than we are. The project that follows, the renovation of a house in SouthWestern France, is a physical exploration of the question and notions posed above. Phenomena of light, sound and material are explored through the architectural making of place as it relates to the rituals of those inhabiting the house.
by William Edward Pitts, III.
M.Arch.

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Steudte, Bjoern. "Architecture and Human Senses - Pre-School in alexandria Old Town." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30950.

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Throughout my years of architecture education I have become more and more aware that we are connected with architecture from the very first moments of our life. Architecture, an important part of our environment, affects our experiences, feelings, memories, and ultimately the decisions we make. To exploring the connection between architecture and the human experience was the intention for my thesis. Whether positive or negative, everything created or done by man has an affect on his environment. Some people are more aware of their architectural environment some are less but at the end we all life with it and have at least an unconscious impression of it. Based on these impressions and the consciously experienced details of our environment, of events we have feelings and make judgments and decisions. The nice dinner on a Friday night which makes you feel comfortable and good, it is a result of the whole environment of the place where you have dinner. Not only the room temperature, your company, your table neighbors, the restaurant staff, the expectations of the coming weekend but more important the dimensions of the space that make it feel grand or intimate, the way sound sticks to the walls or bounces off them giving life to the space, or the way a single beam of light can show you the beauty of colors and materials.
Master of Architecture

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Wojno, Alexandra. "Senses of Darkness: An Exploration of Blind Navigation Through Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52628.

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Based on the principle of sequential lessons for teaching orienteering, the program is a center that teaches navigation to people who are blind, located in the remains of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Through the use of materials, light, and this program of sequential patterns, the architecture focuses on heightening the working senses of the occupants using the progression throughout the building. This connection of the body and mind to architecture creates an awareness of space, unifying a perception of place, while bridging the old life to the new.
Master of Architecture

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NEVES, JULIANA DUARTE. "ON PROJECTS FOR ALL THE SENSES: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ARCHITECTURE TOWARDS PROJECTS DIRECTED TO THE OTHER SENSES BEYOND VISION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=19246@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O presente trabalho aborda os sentidos sob o ponto de vista projetual. Seu principal objetivo é trazer contribuições teóricas e metodológicas à pesquisa na área de Design Emocional para o desenvolvimento de projetos dirigidos aos demais sentidos além da visão. Primeiramente, investiga o design de experiências em espaços físicos, questão atual e crucial das disciplinas projetuais tratadas pelo recente campo da arquitetura de atmosferas, a qual, por sua vez, tem como uma de suas principais estratégias contemplar todos os sentidos humanos. Em seguida, traz considerações sobre a importância de o designer expandir sua atenção para além dos aspectos visuais de seus produtos, apontando alguns motivos pelos quais a visão vem sendo tratada como o sentido hegemônico perante os demais. Discorre sobre e ilustra o papel de cada um de nossos sentidos na percepção do meio construído com base nos ensinamentos do psicólogo James Gibson (1966). Descreve, ainda, três importantes espaços físicos projetados com o propósito de promover experiências a seus visitantes e que, para tanto, se valeram de estratégias com foco em todos os sentidos: o Thermal Baths, o Blur Building e o Museu dos Judeus de Berlim. Por fim, esta pesquisa confirma a importância dos sentidos na expansão das respostas emocionais do usuário ao meio projetado.
This work deals with the senses from the point of view of projects. Its main goal is to bring theoretical and methodological contributions to the research field of Emotional Design for the development of projects directed towards the other senses beyond vision. First, it investigates experience design in physical spaces, a current and crucial question studied by the recent research field of architecture of atmospheres, which in turn has as one of its main strategies to consider all the human senses in its designs. Then, this work brings some thoughts on the importance of the designer to expand his attention beyond the visual aspects of his products, pointing at some of the reasons why vision is held as the hegemonic sense before the others. It broaches on and illustrates the role each one of our senses plays on the perception of the constructed environment, based on the teachings of psychologist James Gibson (1966). It also describes three important constructions which were designed with the intention of promoting experiences for their visitors that have used strategies focused on all the senses: Thermal Baths, Blur Building and the Jewish Museum Berlin. Last, this research confirms the importance of the senses in the expansion of the emotional responses of the user towards the designed environment.

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Lee, Malcolm E. "Site and the Senses: A Geothermal Resort in Southwestern New Mexico." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243348448.

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Chang, Clementine. "Architecture in Search of Sensory Balance." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2841.

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This thesis addresses the urgent need to awaken our numbed senses by means of haptic architecture. As today's technologies continue to hyper-stimulate and under-differentiate, it is architecture's obligation to resist the resultant de-sensitizing of daily experiences. A return of a multi-sensory and corporeal element to architecture can reveal new possibilities for restoring sensory balance, and for connecting our bodies to our surroundings. Through the authority of all the senses, we may re-discover our human identity within the larger context of the world.

The proposed design is a spa health club in downtown Toronto. Throughout history, public baths have been important spaces in cities. Bathers are able to be social or solitary as they choose, while cleansing body and senses. Today, such spaces are lost in the race where thousands upon thousands of advertisements compete for one's imagination. Combining the ancient bath culture with the contemporary fitness culture, the design of the spa health club aims to heighten awareness by engaging the body and all of its senses. Central to the design is an urban public park offering transitory moments of tranquility and sensual pleasure. The spa, with its public park, offers a space that resumes the dialogue between body and space, creating haptic memories and, above all, raising human consciousness.

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Keegan, John D. "Experiencing Sustainable Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36015.

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The prevailing approach to sustainable design focuses on low environmental impact objectives rather than the enhancement of the connection between people and the natural environment. According to Edward O. Wilson, biophilic design attempts to place an emphasis on the human to nature relationship in the built environment under the ideology that we have an innate affinity for the natural world because of our evolutionary development. In order to properly apply biophilic design, it is necessary to study and understand what it is about specific elements in nature that creates a sense of pleasure and well being. Nature is rich with sensual features, and the expression of these biophilic traits in architectural design is really what â sustainable designâ is all about. The purpose of this thesis is to explore Wilsonâ s theories of biophilic design through the development of an office skyscraper. The driving force behind the project is the design of the sensory oases, which are vertical extensions of the ground plane that contain features intended to stimulate the senses.
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CRABTREE, BENJAMIN S. "CORPOREAL NARRATIVES: ARCHITECTURE OF EXPERIENCE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147897305.

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Folliet, Thibaut Michel. "Public Oasis for Nomads." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99203.

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As our technologies evolve, the world gets smaller, and it becomes easier for people to travel and mix. Some people travel, some move permanently, creating an exchange of cultures and knowledge. I believe our architecture should also change and reflect this new aspect of our communities. For that aim I propose a new typology of building. It is a place for people to gather, relax and stay a while, without relying only on other individuals to make the building live and have purpose. The building itself shall be a source of knowledge and experiences akin to tastes and feelings of places abroad. This will be achieved by combining vernacular architecture from different parts of the world, not by having a French room, an Indian room and a South African room, but by studying the vernacular architecture of these places, and creating a whole new language that can express the multiplicity of those places as one. Someone walking in a room will see an aspect which will be reminiscent of his/her place of origin, whereas someone else entering the same room might notice a different architectural element which will bring forth the image of a totally different place. As the individual traverses the building he/she will experience a multitude of spaces with different conditions such as height, width, size, but also a change in temperature, humidity, lighting and smells. Washington D.C. is a very diverse city, with people coming from all over the world, which is a prime example of the melting-pot that is the United States of America. From there, the site was chosen to be in the Dupont Circle area due to the high density of embassies and consulates, business buildings and restaurants. The building will be similar to an oasis for nomads who would like to go to a place that reminds them of their homelands or for locals to sit by the watering hole and listen to stories of lands far away, while actually experiencing those stories through the building.
Master of Architecture
Since a Thesis is one of the rare moments where one can design his own project from choosing the site and program as both client and designer, I wanted to have a project that would be something new and unique. I decided to think about what I could design that would be different, and thus looked inward at what made me different from others. As such I decided to imagine a building that would reflect some aspects of myself, but that would also be relatable for others too. I am French from my parents but also Venezuelan since I was born there in Venezuela. I spent kindergarten in France, was mostly raised in Asia (Bangladesh and Malaysia), and after a year in Cameroon I now live in the United States of America. So when someone asks me where I'm from, I often find myself making an awkward smile accompanied by a silence as I try to understand what the person is asking and what answer I should give. I decided to design a building that would represent the mixture of today's community, a community of nomads where most people have more than just one origin, where we are influenced by the cultures of others. As such my building will be a place for all, with rooms of different conditions allowing the visitor to go to a room that fits his/her preference of size, temperature, lighting and humidity. Similar to how I don't have a Venezuelan leg, a French arm and a Malaysian shoulder, the building was not designed by just copying vernacular architecture from across the globe, but by seeing the common points and combining styles in an all new style that unites and merges the origins together. This is a building that shows how our community is changing and how we can all get along together to make a cohesive whole no matter the differences of the different parts.

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Nanda, Upali. "Sensthetics: a crossmodal approach to the perception, and conception, of our environments." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3215.

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This dissertation counters the visual bias, and the simplistic approach to the senses, in architectural thought, by investigating the connections among different sense modalities (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch). Literature from the cognitive sciences shows that sensory modalities are connected perceptually; what we see affects what we hear, what we smell affects what we taste, and so on. This has a direct impact on the perceptual choices we make in our day-to-day lives. A case study conducted in an urban plaza investigates the perceptual choices people make (or what they attend to) as they explore their physical environment. Results show that people construct subjective and embodied mental maps of their environments where sensory impressions are integrated with cognitive concepts such as emotions or object recognition. Furthermore, when one sense is muted (such as closing the eyes) other senses are prioritized. A theoretical framework termed as the "Sensthetic Model" is developed illustrating the interdependence of sensory, kinesthetic and cognitive factors, and the hierarchical and lateral relationship between sense-modalities. The latter is the focus of studies with architecture students in abstract thinking exercises: a) Hierarchical: Students perceive a hierarchy of senses (sensory order) when they think about different places. Vision is primary, but not always. Touch, classically relegated to the bottom of the hierarchy, is often higher in the hierarchy and coupled with sound. b) Lateral: Students associate colors with different sounds, smells, textures, temperatures, emotions and objects and cross over modalities conceptually, with a degree of consistency. There are more associations with emotions and objects (which are not constrained to a single sense-modality), than with purely sensory images. Finally, the theoretical model is further developed as a tool to think "across" modalities (crossmodally) based on the identification of sensory orders and sensory correspondences. By focusing on the sensory modalities (nodes) and the relationships among them (connections), the model serves as a conceptual tool for professionals to create sensory environments. This dissertation is an initial step beyond the aesthetics of appearance, towards the Sensthetics of experience.

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Jarvis, Matthew. "Architecture of Acupuncture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30912.

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â Architecture of Acupunctureâ refers to one way an architect may begin a design project. This thesis was a one-year collaborative effort with my Masters Diploma Professors, Peter Zumthor and Miguel Kreisler, at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in 2001. To begin, a surgical study of a place just south of Pavia, Italy, was conducted and analyzed to determine the most appropriate program for that place, and again analyzed to determine the most appropriate image and material for that program. I located points in the immediate area of the site where 1.water, 2.road, 3.built mass, and 4.event, intersect on the site and called these â points of convergence.â The points of convergence were used to map out a unique way in which the site can be read. These are the acupuncture points on the body of the place.

The project is an Industrial Fish Farm. It is the largest fish farm in Europe and sells fish to all of Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France, while also serving fresh fish daily to the small towns of Mezzana Corti, Tre Re, and Cascina della Colonne approximate to it.

The Farm is one and a half kilometers of concrete water-filled fields inserted into an irregular shaped land-form between two 18 foot tall existing earth dams.

The attitude of the Farm is a sensitive one in regard to the flat and quiet farming communities around it. The space the Fish Farm occupies cannot be seen unless from the roads which each run on top of the dams themselves. Two new structures are the only things that can be seen from outside the dams. One is a tower building. One is a line building.

The line building is a restaurant, ninety meters long. The Restaurant enhances the industrial program by offering back to the people of the nearby towns an opportunity to actively interact with the new farm. The Restaurant is clamped to the South Dam Road, which is used for public traffic around perimeter of the site. The tower building is the Operations Building. It acts as an aircraft control tower does for an aircraft carrier, consolidating all built mass into one central structure. The Operations Building is a landmark at the midpoint of the concrete fields. It is clamped to the North Dam Road, dedicated to the daily functioning of the Farm. Both structures are shack-like and cheap; both made well of steel and corrugated metal.

All built things inside the body of the Farm, including the two buildings, adopt in their appearances an â insect imageâ from the machines used to harvest the fish. They are raised up on long and thin steel legs so as to lightly touch the still water they stand in.
Master of Architecture

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Brown, Megan (Megan Francesca). "Sensations: a fabric of natural alcoves to provide relief from city life and stimulate the five senses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61196.

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Thesis (S.B. in Art and Design)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.
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Cities have always been, and will likely always be, hectic. With every new technological advance this characteristic becomes amplified, and today city life offers little relief from cell phone chatter, honking car horns, bustling crowds and towering buildings. This is the essence of the city, and to many can be considered to be part of its charm, but it does not provide opportunities for relaxation and peace, creates an individualized society with little opportunity to form communities and also allows for very little interaction with nature. The goal of my thesis is not to design a way to change the vivacity of the city, but rather to create a fabric within it that would provide temporary escapes into natural environments scattered throughout and inspire a new way of city life. These "natural alcoves" uniquely bring nature into the city and are designed to stimulate the five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch and sound. They are connected both by design similarities and shared materiality, and create unique paths between them that run through the city and further insert nature into its environment. I have designed five possible alcoves for Davis Sq., in Somerville. These are not intended to exist independently, but rather to be part of the much larger fabric with even more diverse spaces utilizing similar characteristics, and together could be used as a prototype for other similar surroundings. Olmstead designed Boston's Emerald Necklace in order to provide all city residents with a relief from the pollution, noise and overcrowding of city life. In doing so, he created a network of parks throughout the city that united the greater Boston area through nature. As life becomes progressively more hectic, the need for relief from city life becomes increasingly necessary. We currently have the opportunity to follow Olmstead's lead and produce a framework of places that are compatible with the electronic age but also give a break from frenzied city life.
by Megan Brown.
S.B.in Art and Design

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De, Kock Servaas Willem Lourens. "Music Performance Lab : architecture as a sensory conductor." Diss., Pretoria : [S.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11252008-155320.

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Bengel, Karen A. "Sensual Architecture: Project for a Thermal Bath at Warm Springs." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34590.

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This thesis investigation an project design were driven by the desire to develop an understanding of how architecture addresses the senses. Guided by the practice of a craft, the vestige of art, architectural history and precedent, and the physiology of the five senses, an idea for a thermal bath was expressed through material. This book is a record of that process.
Master of Architecture

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Pino, Yancovic Marco. "Architectural Experience : A design exploration for a New School for the Blind." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281451214.

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Schroeder, Stephanie Ann. "Connections through natural perceptions." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/schroeder/SchroederS1209.pdf.

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I believe that through sensory connection to our natural surroundings we will reinvigorate a deeper connection with ourselves and to the environment. Architecture could become the medium to create that connection as well as the physical manifestation of our understanding of existence and of time, which facilitates this connection. This thesis seeks an understanding of self and place through our sensory connection to nature. In our modern world, we are presented with a growing amount of synthetic and manufactured surroundings that are designed to be perceived through sight, while sound, smell, taste and touch are considered secondary senses, and experiential quality is not inherent. Our society is moving farther away from a connection to nature and a connection to the earth. I believe that through sensory connection to our natural surroundings we will reinvigorate a deeper connection with ourselves and to the environment. This thesis is exploring how nature is the medium for a deeper connection and understanding of ourselves, who we are, and how we interact with the environment through sensory perception. Natural materials and practices are being replaced with synthetics, which lack the cyclical nature and life of natural materials. Machine-made products lack the ability to connect on a humanistic level due to their perpetual state of youth. "We are increasingly detaching ourselves from 'organic and functional periodicity' which is dictated by nature, and replacing it by 'mechanical periodicity' which is dictated by the schedule, the calendar, and the clock."Â³ These fabricated objects intensify the isolated state of man from the natural world through their constant neglect of the senses and disregard for the energies intrinsic in natural materials. It is my belief that to be able to live meaningful and impassioned lives, we must become more aware of fabricated surroundings, and return to natural environment from which we came. By refocusing on natural processes and materials in the built environment, man can reawaken the relationship we have with nature. I believe that through understanding our surrounding's impact, we can connect with not only ourselves, but the environment.

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Srikanth, Preethi. "Object to Experience: Understanding Perception to Create Events." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277134998.

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Dahlin, Åsa. "On architecture, aesthetic experience and the embodied mind." Doctoral thesis, KTH, School of Architecture, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3414.

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Botha, Ilse. "Sound space training facility for the deaf and hard of hearing and sound exploratorium." Diss., Pretoria :[s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07102008-133033.

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Brink, Petrus Badenhorst Naude. "Neuro Consilio: Stimulating visual, haptic, olfactory and auditory senses to promote passive recovery in acute brain injury and post operative neurological patients." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78590.

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The following dissertation analyses how users experience space with their different senses. And how we as designers can utilise this to improve rehabilitative designs’ responsiveness to cater to acute brain injury and post-operative neurological surgery patients. The medical field has shown a rapid increase in neurological development that changes the way doctors have been treating patients thus far. With the rapid growth in development, the associated disciplines need to react to the change in knowledge to provide a facility that accommodates new treatment methods that will always provide the patient with the best care. When dealing with specialised fields, the architectural design process is limited by the designers’ experience and knowledge, and when it comes to the medical field, it is almost always limited. The regulations and medical planning guidelines cater to the minimum requirements and systematic applications and not set to adapt to patient needs. Thus a multidisciplinary collaborative effort is needed to address the patient’s wellbeing properly. For the architectural profession to design responsive environments that help promote the patients’ passive recovery principles, we need to be able to identify the effect our spaces have on the brain. The research aims to broaden the philosophical approach to design to include rehabilitation principles to create more productive environments for patients. By studying the effect of the spaces on the brain, we know from the brain’s neuroplasticity that the constructive stimulation of the areas affected will increase its recovery rate. Once the principles have been identified, architectural drivers can be deduced from the data sets. If correctly implemented, the responsive design principles can help produce better rehabilitative methods that don’t have to rely solely on active rehabilitation applications. The end goal is to have this facility serve as a precedent for future projects with a multidisciplinary healthcare program that aims to incorporate responsible passive neurological treatments.
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Warden, James. "Senses, Perception, and Video Gaming: Design of a College for Video Game Design and Production." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1116113863.

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Mouch, Donald L. "Magnifying the Interstice: exploring the dialogue between architecture's in-betweens." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243022396.

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Landis, Mark J. "Building Kant: The Architecture of Richard Neutra as an Application of Kantian Ideas." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1462626205.

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Andersson, Klara. "View, Bedrock, Forest, Forest Edge : A Recreational Facility at Avholmsberget." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-223223.

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The program of the proposal is a small recreational facility with a restaurant,conference facilities, a reception, hotel rooms and a bath.The size of the program is approximately 1200 m2.Rough approximation:- Staff and information building: 200 m2- Hotel rooms (10 á 25 m2): 250 m2- Bath building: 210 m2- Conference building: 300 m2

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Hyatt, Abigail. "Engaging the Senses for Performance: a Framework for Researching Sensory Design Elements and Their Effects on Productivity in the Workplace." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005, 2005. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11222005-122709/.

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Rehn, Linda. "Sinnenas arkitektur : I vilken utsträckning planeras och utformas dagens svenska arkitektur med de mänskliga sinnena i beaktning?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444888.

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This thesis investigates to what extent Swedish architecture of today is planned and designed in consideration to the human senses. A few decades ago the human senses had the light directed to itself in the world of architecture. But what about in the 2020’s, is the light still on or has sensory architecture fallen into oblivion? The objective of the thesis has been to map out whether the visual sense is currently dominating, together with closely related aspects such as whether architectural specialization or the architect’s sex affects how the senses are seen upon, how present the human senses are in today’s Swedish academic architectural programs and what effect this could have on the architecture of tomorrow. The research method encompasses two structured, quantitative surveys; one aimed at professional architects and one aimed at architectural students/teachers. 114 professional architects responded and 48 students. The surveys concluded that the visual sense is in fact considered the most important by the respondents and therefore hold a leading position. The human senses are overall considered very important for the user experience, despite this they are not often discussed within the professional field, displaying a lack of debate. Further analyzes establish that professional architects sometimes meet resistance and a lack of understanding among other occupations they collaborate with. The abstract nature of the human senses and the difficulties measuring them mean they can easily be downgraded to “optional aesthetics” by other occupational groups. Teachers at the academic architectural programs also has an important standing in weighing up, through their teaching, for the limited presence of aspects of the human senses in the current required reading at the universities.

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Bennett, Greg. "Architecture and the sense of place." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23424.

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Nothnagel, Werner Otto. "Table rules : reprogramming dead or under-used space through the intervention of food and architecture." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07282008-142000.

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Vegro, Maria Fernanda Andrade Saiani. "O desenho arquitetônico: fenomenologia e linguagem em Joan Villà." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/93/93131/tde-11032015-104228/.

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Este trabalho trata de uma interface entre arquitetura e filosofia. O instrumental teórico utilizado nesta pesquisa é a fenomenologia da linguagem de Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Propomos uma leitura dos desenhos do arquiteto Joan Villà, por meio de uma linguagem expressiva, conquistadora, estabelecida como sistema complexo, aberto, onde os signos articulam-se pela diferença que estabelecem entre si e dessa forma, constituem a unidade da linguagem do arquiteto. Nosso objetivo é situarmos o fenômeno criativo nos desenhos do arquiteto e tratar questões da gênese do sentido, Para a leitura dos aspectos latentes dos desenhos, elegemos a teoria da intersubjetividade de Merleau-Ponty, presente na fenomenologia da linguagem para situarmos o trabalho participativo de Villà junto a comunidades carentes de habitação, na exposição de um desenho arquitetônico aberto, democrático. Para os aspectos dos desenhos em si, escolhemos a questão do vazio positivo e a dialética entre espaço público e espaço privado.Dessa forma, pretendemos desenvolver uma linguagem expressiva não meramente comunicativa, indireta, alusiva, capaz de conferir sentidos para a arquitetura, pois nossa hipótese é que na contemporaneidade, no âmbito da arquitetura e do urbanismo, vive-se uma crise de sentidos.
This work is an interface between architecture and philosophy. The theoretical tool used in this research is the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty language therefore propose here a reading of the drawings of the architect Joan Villa via an expressive language, conquering, established as a complex system, open, in which the signs articulate by the difference established between them and thus constitute the unity of the language of the architect. Our goal is to situate the phenomenon in creative designs of the architect and dealing with issues of the genesis of sense. To read the latent aspects of the designs we have chosen the theory of intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty, this phenomenology of language to situate participatory work villa next to needy communities in housing, exposing an open, democratic architectural design. For the visible aspects of the drawings, chose the issue of positive void and the dialectic between public space and private space. Thus, we intend to develop a merely communicative, indirect, allusive, expressive language is able to give directions to architecture because our hypothesis is that in contemporary times, in architecture and urbanism, one lives a crisis of meaning.

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Alan, Ilker. "School for Children who are Blind." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79452.

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Architecturally, my thesis project is a new type of design for children who have visual impairments. Most of the children who have visual impairments need more attention to receive a full education. With a proper education they will be able to start living by themselves without any assistance. I decided to design a school which would support the needs of the children and the aspirations of their parents; a place of safety and ambition that would free instructors and inspire the children. Then, I began to seek an architectural site program where I could locate my design. Old town Alexandria is an excellent location for the planned education center. Old town has its own urban context with boundaries like the Potomac River, trees, old railroad ways, a tunnel, and other landmarks like churches, libraries, museums, etc. The children in the education center have an opportunity to learn more and show their life skills easily in the old town. Also the site selection and location was important due to the history of the town, easy transportation and connections with surroundings, being right next to the Potomac River and minutes away from the Washington DC.
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Svetlicic, Ivan. "EMOTION BASED SUBSUMPTION ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTICS." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1090173118.

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Boland, Katherine Ellen. "Sense of Past ... Sense of Place." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/boland/BolandK0508.pdf.

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Architecture today does not respond to memory, the essence of character. As a result, a disengagement exists between people and place. In a world of constant movement a sense of place is not only uncommon but in some instances unknown; we are continuously in a state of motion. We commonly forget why we are here, who settled the land we now inhabit. We forget that life is more than technology bombarding us at every instant; it is more than work and more than financial success. We forget that life can be more. Architecture is also in this state of constant motion, financial success is placed ahead of experience, and as a result places become indifferent, unmemorable, and apathetic. Memory must not be put to the wayside; it is the bond that connects us to our culture. It enables our will to dream. Architecture can be the means of remembering. By cueing memory through emotion and sensory detail, one is able to pause and recall past events. The dilapidation of oneâ€™s environment can also cue memory. The act of showing the passage of time makes the past come alive. By responding to these aspects architecture becomes an indication of memory. As a result we will be connected to the land on which we live and have a reason to call that place home. We will have a heightened sense of place. Alienation and placelessness will be no more. The inevitable result of engaging memory in architecture will produce memorable spaces that inspire us, leaving us with a sense of belonging. The intention of this thesis is to illustrate that architecture is capable of unlocking memory, both collective and personal, through materials, form, and experience. This will evoke personal insights and ultimately provide memorable architecture that enhances a sense of place. As a result, we will be brought back to the days of childhood, to imagination, to a life full of meaningful events that imprint memories on the soul.

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Magner, Jeremy. "The machines of perception." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24630.

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Oliveira, Antonio Manuel. "Relearning architecture : sense, time, place and technology." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/620215/.

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This research reflects the vision of the architect starting from an interpretation of some philosophical principles, which guide the structure of this thesis, related to the actual issue of architectonic creation, and has as a case study architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, applied to and explained by the project of Quinta da Malagueira, in Évora. I will be researching a specific period, line of thinking, school of architecture and architecture project, and the in-between modern and post-modern thinking, inbetween a regime and democracy, in-between modernity and tradition, global and individual, abstract and imagery, and also the present, the past and the future. The in-between is the route that has not yet been submitted to rigid and intellectualised principles and has not yet been brought into academia. This thesis analyses the role of the architect in contemporary society, considering the questions put in its various sectors, its relationship with the constructed world, and the implications in the structure of the present architecture with its new methodological strategies. In this context, it will try to understand the interactions between the built world, the natural, the humane, technology and space-time dialectics, achieving through this interaction, an instrumental re-reading of the whole process. So, using studies not only at a local (background) level but also in the scope of contemporaneous architectural intervention, this study will suggest an instrumental re-reading and re-learning which will favour the first creative act. Based on these phenomenological values, in this thesis a genetic connection between the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira's project 'Quinta da Malagueira' in Évora (Portugal), Siza in the context of the 'Porto School' and the work of Le Corbusier is traced. From an examination of this period (after the 1974 revolution in Portugal), poised between the Modern Movement and Post- Modernism, but with its own specific space-time, this thesis will also present an understanding of the present situation, and (acknowledging existing variety), will propose a different direction for architectonic creation, which embodies continuity and rupture, accumulation of experience and knowledge and also new ways of thinking. In order to understand how space can transgress the connection between spatiality and temporality it becomes necessary to understand the essential starting point. At a moment when society understands space and is understood in space, the author asserts the importance of new perspectives for society based on some other paradigm, in order to determine the role of individual action, and the artistic framing and ranging of both the architect and architecture.

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Olette, Denis. "A sense of place: architecture and territoriality." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64023.

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Fryman, Joshua Bruce. "SoftCache Architecture." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7205.

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Multiple trends in computer architecture are beginning to collide as process technology reaches ever smaller feature sizes. Problems with managing power, access times across a die, and increasing complexity to sustain growth are now blocking commercial products like the Pentium 4. These problems also occur in the embedded system space, albeit in a slightly different form. However, as process technology marches on, today's high-performance space is becoming tomorrow's embedded space. New techniques are needed to overcome these problems. In this thesis, we propose a novel architecture called SoftCache to address these emerging issues for embedded systems. We reduce the on-die memory controller infrastructure which reduces both power and space requirements, using the ubiquitous network device arena as a proving ground of viability. In addition, the SoftCache achieves further power and area savings by converting on-die cache structures into directly addressable SRAM and reducing or eliminating the external DRAM. To avoid the burden of programming complexity this approach presents to the application developer, we provide a transparent client-server dynamic binary translation system that runs arbitrary ELF executables on a stripped-down embedded target. One drawback to such a scheme lies in the overhead of additional instructions required to effect cache behavior, particularly with respect to data caching. Another drawback is the power use when fetching from remote memory over the network. The SoftCache comprises a dynamic client-server translation system on simplified hardware, targeted at Intel XScale client devices controlled from servers over the network. Reliance upon a network server as a ``backing store' introduces new levels of complexity, yet also allows for more efficient use of local space. The explicitly software managed aspects create a cache of variable line size, full associativity, and high flexibility. This thesis explores these particular issues, while approaching everything from the perspective of feasibility and actual architectural changes.

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Harrold, Teresa Lauren. "The Home Embodied." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053696590.

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Omar, Muhammed Saadig. "Stimulating vitality : facilities for the promotion of healthy living in Olievenhoutbosch." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31478.

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This dissertation aims to promote healthy living for people residing in a disadvantaged area. Physical activity, social interaction a connection with nature are key aspects in this project. The proposed facility would thus include amenities for recreation and health services to assist in achieving this goal. The architecture will be used to stimulate the senses and thus bring into consciousness the presence of the human body in its interaction with the surroundings. The motivation for the project is the fact that many of the health problems experienced by the population of the country are caused by obesity. A lack of physical activity and poor eating habits has resulted in obesity and its associated illnesses being quite common in all communities around the world. Another reason for the project is the accelerated damages that are occurring to the natural environment. People have become unaware of the importance of natural environment and this ignorance has lead to polluting and general mistreatment becoming common place. The proposed site is in the township of Olievenhoutbosch, south of Tshwane. The township lacks many public facilities so the proposed design should also consider the intervention being more than just a health and recreation centre, but one that serves as a hub for the people of the community.
Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Afnan, Parviz F. "The "sense of place" its significance, theory and attainment /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pha257.pdf.

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Cummer, Clementine Douglas. "Seeing things : making sense of life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34102.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-145).
This thesis is a reflection on the ideas and process involved in making a body of art work which deals with singular experiences of looking and personal efforts to grasp meaning through vision. These projects grew from my understanding that vision is subjective and always mediated, both by technologies and by other bodies. Experientially, the theoretically clear distinction between subject and object is confusing: the viewer is always part of the picture, always implicated in the process of making sense. As a contemporary medium that claims to offer direct records of the living world, digital video is both a compelling, but inadequate, simulacra of the real thing and fabulous realization of our dreams of visual acuity. Neither the written nor the visual work included here is intended to illustrate or explain the other. Language and image work best in conversation with one another; both are powerful and satisfying ways of playing with ideas and finding new knowledge. In Chapter 2, I explore a number of different theories that have contributed to my thinking and to my making. This theoretical work is not an explanation of the visual work. It is, rather, another way of thinking through some of the same concerns.
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Braat, Sylvie Anne Ingrid. "On sensory experience of historic architecture : an empirical review of sensory perceptions in historic buildings, aiming to inform their conservation process." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2725.

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This thesis studies people’s sensory perceptions of historic architecture, exploring the physical triggers for such experience, and connecting these with what can and should be maintained through building conservation. Sensory design is a developing field in architecture. The research argues that this approach can inform people’s understanding of the architectural experience of historic buildings, which in current discourse are predominantly considered for their associated ‘cultural significances’. People’s affinity to (historic) buildings is initiated by a response through the senses. This research advocates that establishing the triggers for such sensory response should be the main focus of the initial assessment of a building for conservation. From the review of changing approaches to building conservation, and exploration of sensory perception and sensory design, the research concludes people’s experiential perceptions have not been structurally considered in the appraisal of historic buildings. The methodology entailed the empirical development of a suitable assessment format, through performing initial on-site surveys that generated data to be added to those of a final sensory assessment, covering three buildings. Buildings were assessed according to Gibson’s sensory systems of visual, auditory, haptic, olfactory/gustatory and orientational perception, as well as with a comprehensive multisensory focus. Evidence from the data retrieved through this research indicates that the sensory assessment is a useful, informative and exciting addition to any architectural survey in building conservation practice. Such rich information will provide guidance and clarity to decision processes, to assist in retaining the affinity as the building’s physical relevance for the future. The research makes an original contribution to knowledge through the combination of two areas of study; through the application of sensory perception to understand historic buildings; and, in demonstrating that a sensory assessment has true potential as a suitable approach to the issue in practice.

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