Emotional Journey As interpreted through the lens of Richard Hill’s “Purpose Function, Use”
Repetition
A Fan or Visiting Spectator “There is a stream of consciousness in which the building varies in significance moment by moment, rising to conscious attention and then falling away...the office worker does this every day so that an essential aspect of the aesthetics of use is its sheer repetition”.
Staff Divided Attention Factory Staff
Funeral Staff
Auditorium
“The user of building has a different range of kinds of experience, a different collection of types of attention, from the visiting spectator”.
Users
Mourners
Tesseract
Attributing the various stages of grief to the architecture in question can result in a holistically informed design which provides a resolve to more than just lack of green space, it can provide emotional resolve to mourners.
Facto As observed by Hill, staff confined to a space perceive the architecture differently to a spectator or user. Architecturally speaking, this means the staff spaces, such as the factory or crematorium, can be designed for function rather than form. The staff journey is linear and devoid of holistic experience and emotion.
Visitors
Depression
The Up Travellers
Local Community
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Transients
The auditorium is expected to host funerals, therefore a sombre atmosphere will be needed to match the energy of the room.
Denial and Anger
Stages of Grief
The user is unique in their experience as they will be dealing with physical and emotional loss. This facilitating architectural moments where the user can have a personal interaction with the deceased. These mo and each one can help the user to progress through the stages of grief, ultimately concluding with a celebrati
