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Materials, architecture and multisensoriality. Sensitive spaces for care and health
The expressive values of light penetrate into materials, becoming intensely structuring factors, which have always been used in design processes, together with formal choices, to characterize the surfaces and spaces of architecture from a sensory point of view and to orient the perceptive experience. Currently, the widespread instability of the material substance is reversed in a growing interest in materials aimed at enhancing the sensory qualities within an expanded perceptual dimension that, confirming the most usual and established meanings of materials, reinvents additional, innovative and surprising ones. The level of aesthetic and functional affordance of the architectural space and of the elements that compose it is entrusted not so much to abstract forms, but rather to a sort of sensory extension of them, linked to the specific materiality of objects that Merleau Ponty has icastically formulated in his reflections on 'Feeling'. The realizations of many great contemporary architects, especially in the field of public architecture, paradigmatically exemplify the search for multidimensionality as a founding value of spatial genesis that, alongside the perceptive transience, place materials at the center of the project, as bearers of meanings, relationships, multisensory experiential modes. This general interest in the simultaneity of the various components of perception is projected, demultiplied, in the architecture dedicated to spaces for health where, re-evaluating the synergistic action of all five senses, the design criteria adopted for the creation of new and sensitive spaces call into question, next to the usual and dominant visual perception, other sensibilities and modes of perception such as proprioception, kinesthesia, synaesthesia.
Materials, architecture and multisensoriality. Sensitive spaces for care and health
The expressive values of light penetrate into materials, becoming intensely structuring factors, which have always been used in design processes, together with formal choices, to characterize the surfaces and spaces of architecture from a sensory point of view and to orient the perceptive experience. Currently, the widespread instability of the material substance is reversed in a growing interest in materials aimed at enhancing the sensory qualities within an expanded perceptual dimension that, confirming the most usual and established meanings of materials, reinvents additional, innovative and surprising ones. The level of aesthetic and functional affordance of the architectural space and of the elements that compose it is entrusted not so much to abstract forms, but rather to a sort of sensory extension of them, linked to the specific materiality of objects that Merleau Ponty has icastically formulated in his reflections on 'Feeling'. The realizations of many great contemporary architects, especially in the field of public architecture, paradigmatically exemplify the search for multidimensionality as a founding value of spatial genesis that, alongside the perceptive transience, place materials at the center of the project, as bearers of meanings, relationships, multisensory experiential modes. This general interest in the simultaneity of the various components of perception is projected, demultiplied, in the architecture dedicated to spaces for health where, re-evaluating the synergistic action of all five senses, the design criteria adopted for the creation of new and sensitive spaces call into question, next to the usual and dominant visual perception, other sensibilities and modes of perception such as proprioception, kinesthesia, synaesthesia.
Materials, architecture and multisensoriality. Sensitive spaces for care and health
Teresa Della Corte (author) / DELLA CORTE, Teresa
2019-01-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720
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