Monday, July 19, 2010

Session 5: Architecture of Seven Sense

The 7 sense that for architecture is eye, ear, skin, toungue, skeleton, and muscle.

From the building mention below, lets using the 7 sense to feel it :

Church in Kuala Lumpur, from the interior view, using the eyes to feel the elegance, Grand feeling of the church. Using you ear you can feel the spiritual, peaceful of the silent and echo of the Hall. There is something that we can't only use visual to judge the design of the church but with our other sense we can feel the spiritual and peacefuness of the building.

Denmark shanghai expo building. The muscle feeling the building creating a pathway to allow people to go through spirally into the internal part.

By using your sense of tounge, the denmark waterscape giving a sense of peaceful,relaxing and totally different from the city life that represent their country culture. The waterscape and the mermaid sculpture giving a impression to the visitor from different sense.


Canada Building at shanghai world expo. the facade of the building giving a sense of skin to attract the people to touch and feel the strip wooden line and the texture of the wood. It create texture to allow people to touch and feel and from there, it bring them into their culture of Canada.

Daan Roosegarde's Dune project, using some 'electronice bamboo stick' set at the underground tunnel. When people pass by, the Bamboo detect the step foot sound of the people it will swing and light up the head part of the stick. It giving a sense of attract people to touch the stick and it also brighten up the space. By using our sense of eyes, the Bamboo stick create a illusion and it also can lighten up the boring tunnel become a creative and fun tunnel.


England Shanghai world expo building. The facade of the building inspire fews of our senses such like our eye, touch and etc. By Daytime, the facade will create a illusion that attract people to touch the facade. By night, the facade will light up different color and it create another feeling that stimulate our sense of eye cause it create another illusion.

KLCC, during the day the steel and glass surface giving people a cool feeling. By using our sense of eye and touch, we can feel the coolness of the building. But when night come, the Building become Kindly and elegant, the lighting effect create a harmony feeling which touch our sense of eyes and ears. The lighting effect soften up the steel structure and the glass panel that giving the feeling of coolness.
The Taiping Environment, you can feel the peacefulness and relaxing with your sense of eyes, ears, touch and muscle. Walk along the pedestrian pathway, you can hear you foot step and the surrounding natural sound come to your ears and create a harmony, peaceful feeling. From the vision, the greenery, wide angel blue sky, the lake will fully cover your vision.

The Würth La Rioja Museum Garden, the pathway create in disordered lines are reminiscent of the nature, branches, leaves, channels, cracks, rivers. These lines seems to create a virtual grid over the existing site will geometrizing the ground, and organizing it too. By using our senses, we can feel the pathway,wall and the waterscape become vertical trees walls, lace permeable branches laces, bark areas reminiscent of the forest ground, white pebbles stones eroded over time by water, as if a river were involved.

When the night come. the environment will change into forest feeling, the soft light will create a harmony and kindly feeling and it stimulate our sense by the lighting and the wind flow that create by the narrow path.

The Cloud Gate, by using the sense of touch and eyes, we can see the skyline from the cloud gate. From there, it also attract people to touch the skyline of city by touching it. The cloud gate giving a chance to the people to feel the city and also let you be in the city.

The LOVE NYC sculpture. From the vision to the taste. When you 1st sight saw the sculpture, it attract you with the simple 4 alphabet. Sooner it become taste of sweetness and happiness. From the 4 alphabet it become a word : LOVE


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