CHAPTER 5: ARCHITECTURAL PERCEPTS

CHAPTER 5 5 ARCHITECTURAL PERCEPTS

5.1 CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

FIG 5 Design ideas SPIRITUALITY OF THE SPACES:

9 IMPORTANT POINTS ON MINIMALISM BY TADAO ANDO

CONNECTIVITY WITH NATURE: “You can live in harmony, close contact with nature helps to brighten up the user mood.

THE VOID: “If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness”.

SIMPLICITY: “The essence of Minimalism is simplicity, but simplicity without depth is merely cheap. It is not enough.”

EMOTIONS: “Create spaces that move people. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, just going around and feeling happy which creates memories.

SILENCE: “I don’t believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind.

THE LOGIC: “To create architecture is to express characteristic aspects of the real world such as nature, history, tradition, and society, in a spatial structure, based on clear, transparent logic.”

LIGHT: It is an important controlling factor. Which gives the space depth.

SPIRITUALITY: “To achieve simplicity, and to achieve depth in the spaces. Architecture must be a space where you feel spiritually empowered.”

THE RUINS: “What remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure the spirit of the thing.”

FIG 5.1 Meditation space UNESCO, 1995, Paris, France. FIG 5.2 State of Buddha at Makomanai Takino Cemetery, city of Sapporo.

PADAMAS: All the architectural elements in the design are moving around the numbers 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 which are the numbers that are used in the dance forms for there performances.

FIG 5.3 Pdams in classical dance form

BODY POSTURES (Geometry):

Dance Is a human behavior inherent in all of us.

FIG 5.4 Body postures

NAVA RASA:

RASA MEANS “EMOTION” AND BHAVA MEANS“STATE OF MIND”.

FIG 5.5 Nava rasa • Facial expressions are representation of the person’s mood. All the classical dance forms have the same theory of nine expressions. • Architectural spaces can also give an impact of how the user group feels when they are within the spaces and that is studied through FEEL OF SPACE.

RELATION WITH COLORS IN ARCHITECTURE AND USERS EMOTIONS

• So the colors of a building or room profoundly influence how the people using it feel. • Physiologically, study after study has shown that blue light slows the production of melatonin, keeping people more alert or awake even at night. Psychologically, people associate certain colors with certain feelings due to cultural symbols and lived experiences – for example, they might perceive the color red as menacing or frightening because of its connection to blood. •Altogether, the way a room is colored can have complex effects on how its users feel, while a façade can be perceived in dramatically different ways depending on how it is colored.

9 ASPECTS OF DESIGN STRUCTURING:

- MOVEMENT - ZIG ZAG PATTERN - A VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE AXIS - GEOMETRY - NATURE - SPIRITUALITY - MATERIALS - VOID - THE USER

NAVAGRAHA MANDALA DERIVATION FROM NAVAGRAHA MANDLA

FIG 5.6 Navagraha mandala

• 9 being the sacred number has an important history with nature:

• The movement should have a theory behind it. • All the dance forms movement’s have a visible or invisible axis and the focal point which is taken consideration while designing. •The building is the sculpture for humans, and hence the geometry comes into picture which gives an identity to the building. • Connecting nature to seen and unseen spaces of architecture brings out the positive emotions and feel of the space. • Spirituality being the primary element in the design that provides life to the structure and architectural design. • Materials also play an important role in representing certain typology or the message to the users. • The spaces with nothingness. • All the above study is from the users and creates a comfortable environment for primary users and secondary users.