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The development of the computer and World Wide Web has resulted in the seamless accessibility of data. This constant flow of facts and numbers has brough about a rapid and efficient life-style, much similar to a well-oiled machine. To match this fast paced living culture, spacial designs of the working environment, and subsequently living environment, have focused on optimum productivity and functional efficiency. Either “form before function” or “function before form”.

Thus, “how can the 21st C dwelling raise an occupant’s consciousness and awareness by revealing how the senses respond to the living environment?”. This question is raised to challenge our digital society where constant exposure of social media and computer interface relies heavily on our cognitive perception and dulled our other senses.

This is not a rebellion against the optical perception or an accusation against the media of exploiting this dependency. It is a fact that we do heavily rely on our eyes, but rather than perceiving it as a dependency on what we see, it is a deficiency of opportunities to engage intimately with our other senses, much like a nutritional deficiency. Opportuni-

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ties meaning how the built environment allows us to interact with space through our other senses of touch, listening, smell and taste.

People experience a space or environment with different sensory strengths, and this distinguishes their appreciation and or understanidng of that space. In turn the built environment can raise an occupant’s consciousness and awareness by revealilng how the senses respond to taht space. The goal of Sensory Vitamins is to create a living environment that will replenish our awareness of our senses by heightening the sensory experience of the built environment in a holistic manner. Much like a vitamin, each program acts a capsule containing spatial experiences that will counter act our deficiencies.

This hypothesis has been tested as part of the Mission to Seafarers, a missionary service for seafarers who spend months on end out at sea. This temporary dwelling and relief aims to provide accute sensory spaces for the seafarers to engage with as a theraputic experience after months of living on a ship and monotonous environment. Isolated pods containing a different sensory experience allows seafarers to select a specific

sense they wish to engage with, allowing an opportunity to re-establish their phsyce and preparing them for future challenges they will meet out in the open sea.

So remember to smell again, enjoy to taste again, take time to hear again, relish in feeling again. And take a Sensory Vitamin today..

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