Lifeless without experiencing the spaces through the senses!
Eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton and muscle. When we used all these senses in experiencing a space, the space could be live up, but not bare image in front of our eyes without any meaning.
As like what it was said, we human actually being dependent and rely on the vision so much in our daily life. A lot of perceptions was made final with the sight we seen through our eyes. Like we like to see beautiful things. However I think, if we actually dependent solely on only one of the senses, we couldn't really feel the world. Not only architecture, spaces, but the world.
I used to cry when I watch some korean or japanese soap drama, quite easily. :p However got once, the TV was muted, and I watched back some very saddening scenes in the drama, without music and sound, with only the motions in the TV, I couldn't feel anything. Vice versa, when I was busy doing assignment and my sis was watching some soap drama as well, my back was facing the TV, I was just hearing their conversations in the drama with sad musics, without the motions, there wasn't any feeling, or urge that could cause my tears falling. hahaha. What an example. I think with only the combination of two or more senses, feeling could be created more easily, more lively. Except if one have an extraordinary imaginary mind. I once have a colleague that could cry listening to radio fm's story. lol
Back to the topic of senses, my own experiences. Hmm.
I actually love the smells of the books. I like the smell of the bookstores, the library, even more if the library is old, with a lot of old books. When I stepped into the library or bookstore, if the smell of the books isn't there, the feeling of liking the space, the description and perception of my mind toward this library would decrease. It wouldn't really feel like a library for me. Flipping through the yellowish books with the old book smells, it feel like there is a lot of stories to be told inside the book. Just the smell of an old book could create such a feeling for me, what's more when I stepped into a bookstore with hundreds of books which smells the same! how wonderful, it seems like the library/bookstores have contained thousands of mysteries itself inside the space. Therefore, smells actually can create a sense of space, make a space live up a life.
There is actually another more realistic example which is the bank. I actually thinks that the bank has a smell of money, that makes a "bank" a "bank". haha. I guess if one stepped into a bank without the ability of other senses but with only smell, he would guess correctly over it that it's a bank.
Birds chirping, insects producing squerking sounds, by listening to these sound we could actually know it's near a forest or more to a greenery space.
Standing and playing inside an arcade game space, without the loud noise of the stereos and arcade machines, the people who's playing wouldn't really have the mood to play. Exception for those who are just tend to waste their time there for nothing, most of the people playing there actually would like to express their anger, their unhappiness and release some stress by playing there, "bombing" their ears and emotions right there. ( Sometimes I tend to do this, that's why O.O only sometimes). The hearing actually creating the mood inside the arcade center. Imagine yourselves playing in an arcade center with no noise, no sound at all, there would be so dull and uninteresting, the life of the arcade center wouldn't be there.
The echo produced inside a cave gave me an impression of deep space inner but got covered with solid stones all around. so mysterious!
Actually some certain things are meant to be felt and experienced. Such as when we look at the durian's sharp edges, by just looking at it, though we could feel it's sharp, but it's not real. I think we should touch it gently to feel it. Though sharp and might be harmful, but could bring heaven's taste.
As for space, like when we go for jungle trekking, inside the forest, I'll tend to touch the trees around to feel the texture of the tree's skin. This makes the forest live to me that the nature's all around me, where I could truly feel through touches.
In sem 1, mei yin and me went to Ar. Lok Wooi's house for a visit. His house was totally made of exposed brick and timber, we have been touching the materials to feel the texture, that made us closer to the space, to feel the house. @.@
as for tongue, i actually don't really know how to experience spaces through this. Maybe when i came into a candy and chocolate shop, I'll tend to feel like tasting the food inside. I think this will be more like a type of imaginary. Rubble stones on the floor that looks alike with jelly beans, the tongue that will have a reaction to feel like trying it? @.@
Movement. I guess the best experience that I could sense the space through this would be in the "Pasar Malam". The movement of the crowd along the long street of night market, especially in my favourite night market of all, the Taman Connaught night market in Wednesday. The street is really long with a lot of stalls. The crowd grow bigger and bigger as the night go deeper. The people wouldn't feel sick over the crowd but they enjoy the movement of the flow of the people all along the streets. Couldn't really say enjoy, but the movements show the presence of human / people all around. This movements make the night market significant and live a life.
If a night market that has no people with no movement, it would be so dead.
Actually all the senses that made life. If just depend on just one, there will be lack of something no matter how. The space couldn't be feel and appreciated truthfully. Just like the example as we go into the japanese garden, I went to the Colmar Tropical Village in Fraser Hill, everything there was just a pleasure. A relaxing Hill station. From the French village architecture, to the Japanese Village where they have very nice smell plantations, we can smell, we can see, we can feel, we can touch, we can even taste the natural water around. The atmosphere is a total pleasant. Such a lively place. A lot of tourists were attracted to this place for holiday as well when I last visited there.
I found that in Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), there was once a workshop, where the title was: How to experience space through the senses? There have got two experiments,
1. One sense at the time
They tried to explore how the other senses other than visual influence our perception of space.
“Vision separates us from the world whereas the other senses unite us with it.” (1)
They made sure that only one of the senses could be used while they escorted a group of participants through several different spaces. They asked them questions about their experience of the individual spaces. Is the space big or small, light or dark, or high or low?
2. Experience space by movement
They did a number of (dance) exercises in 3 different spaces at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) to get to know the spaces. Some of the exercises were: walk around, finding lines, relax in space, and walk towards and away from each other. The idea was to find out different aspects that define space by using all our senses. Aspects like orientation, focus, reference points and how we felt in these different environments.
In the end result, it showed that perceiving solely with vision gives us a distorted perception of space, especially in comparison with the separate use of smell and touch. They tend to describe space a lot more accurately.
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Lifeless without experiencing the spaces through the senses!
Eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton and muscle. When we used all these senses in experiencing a space, the space could be live up, but not bare image in front of our eyes without any meaning.
As like what it was said, we human actually being dependent and rely on the vision so much in our daily life. A lot of perceptions was made final with the sight we seen through our eyes. Like we like to see beautiful things. However I think, if we actually dependent solely on only one of the senses, we couldn't really feel the world. Not only architecture, spaces, but the world.
I used to cry when I watch some korean or japanese soap drama, quite easily. :p However got once, the TV was muted, and I watched back some very saddening scenes in the drama, without music and sound, with only the motions in the TV, I couldn't feel anything. Vice versa, when I was busy doing assignment and my sis was watching some soap drama as well, my back was facing the TV, I was just hearing their conversations in the drama with sad musics, without the motions, there wasn't any feeling, or urge that could cause my tears falling. hahaha. What an example. I think with only the combination of two or more senses, feeling could be created more easily, more lively. Except if one have an extraordinary imaginary mind. I once have a colleague that could cry listening to radio fm's story. lol
Back to the topic of senses, my own experiences. Hmm.
I actually love the smells of the books. I like the smell of the bookstores, the library, even more if the library is old, with a lot of old books. When I stepped into the library or bookstore, if the smell of the books isn't there, the feeling of liking the space, the description and perception of my mind toward this library would decrease. It wouldn't really feel like a library for me. Flipping through the yellowish books with the old book smells, it feel like there is a lot of stories to be told inside the book. Just the smell of an old book could create such a feeling for me, what's more when I stepped into a bookstore with hundreds of books which smells the same! how wonderful, it seems like the library/bookstores have contained thousands of mysteries itself inside the space. Therefore, smells actually can create a sense of space, make a space live up a life.
There is actually another more realistic example which is the bank. I actually thinks that the bank has a smell of money, that makes a "bank" a "bank". haha. I guess if one stepped into a bank without the ability of other senses but with only smell, he would guess correctly over it that it's a bank.
Birds chirping, insects producing squerking sounds, by listening to these sound we could actually know it's near a forest or more to a greenery space.
Standing and playing inside an arcade game space, without the loud noise of the stereos and arcade machines, the people who's playing wouldn't really have the mood to play. Exception for those who are just tend to waste their time there for nothing, most of the people playing there actually would like to express their anger, their unhappiness and release some stress by playing there, "bombing" their ears and emotions right there. ( Sometimes I tend to do this, that's why O.O only sometimes). The hearing actually creating the mood inside the arcade center. Imagine yourselves playing in an arcade center with no noise, no sound at all, there would be so dull and uninteresting, the life of the arcade center wouldn't be there.
The echo produced inside a cave gave me an impression of deep space inner but got covered with solid stones all around. so mysterious!
Actually some certain things are meant to be felt and experienced. Such as when we look at the durian's sharp edges, by just looking at it, though we could feel it's sharp, but it's not real. I think we should touch it gently to feel it. Though sharp and might be harmful, but could bring heaven's taste.
As for space, like when we go for jungle trekking, inside the forest, I'll tend to touch the trees around to feel the texture of the tree's skin. This makes the forest live to me that the nature's all around me, where I could truly feel through touches.
In sem 1, mei yin and me went to Ar. Lok Wooi's house for a visit. His house was totally made of exposed brick and timber, we have been touching the materials to feel the texture, that made us closer to the space, to feel the house. @.@
as for tongue, i actually don't really know how to experience spaces through this. Maybe when i came into a candy and chocolate shop, I'll tend to feel like tasting the food inside. I think this will be more like a type of imaginary. Rubble stones on the floor that looks alike with jelly beans, the tongue that will have a reaction to feel like trying it? @.@
Movement. I guess the best experience that I could sense the space through this would be in the "Pasar Malam". The movement of the crowd along the long street of night market, especially in my favourite night market of all, the Taman Connaught night market in Wednesday. The street is really long with a lot of stalls. The crowd grow bigger and bigger as the night go deeper. The people wouldn't feel sick over the crowd but they enjoy the movement of the flow of the people all along the streets. Couldn't really say enjoy, but the movements show the presence of human / people all around. This movements make the night market significant and live a life.
If a night market that has no people with no movement, it would be so dead.
Actually all the senses that made life. If just depend on just one, there will be lack of something no matter how. The space couldn't be feel and appreciated truthfully. Just like the example as we go into the japanese garden, I went to the Colmar Tropical Village in Fraser Hill, everything there was just a pleasure. A relaxing Hill station. From the French village architecture, to the Japanese Village where they have very nice smell plantations, we can smell, we can see, we can feel, we can touch, we can even taste the natural water around. The atmosphere is a total pleasant. Such a lively place. A lot of tourists were attracted to this place for holiday as well when I last visited there.
I found that in Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), there was once a workshop, where the title was: How to experience space through the senses? There have got two experiments,
1. One sense at the time
They tried to explore how the other senses other than visual influence our perception of space.
“Vision separates us from the world whereas the other senses unite us with it.” (1)
They made sure that only one of the senses could be used while they escorted a group of participants through several different spaces. They asked them questions about their experience of the individual spaces. Is the space big or small, light or dark, or high or low?
2. Experience space by movement
They did a number of (dance) exercises in 3 different spaces at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) to get to know the spaces. Some of the exercises were: walk around, finding lines, relax in space, and walk towards and away from each other. The idea was to find out different aspects that define space by using all our senses. Aspects like orientation, focus, reference points and how we felt in these different environments.
In the end result, it showed that perceiving solely with vision gives us a distorted perception of space, especially in comparison with the separate use of smell and touch. They tend to describe space a lot more accurately.
