Concern/ interest Architecture defines where we are, what we are looking at, what is above us, what is below us. It orients us. It is much more than what we see, what we hear, what we touch, what we smell. It is one of our deepest deepest dreams. Daniel Libeskind once said, “architecture is one of the biggest unwritten documents in history”. Buildings and urban spaces should be designed first and foremost around their occupants. The importance of architecture as a trigger to physical, physiological and psychological wellbeing is nowadays becoming a topic of significant relevance.
Hypothesis Architecture can take us along for a ride should we choose to design it to do so much like a story. Although every building wasn’t created to tell an architectural story, the way we experience it is much like a story. If we were to adopt the telling of narratives as fundamental design principles, we could once again reinvigorate buildings so that they can be worthy of exploring. 20
Research questions • How does architecture influence movement? • How does circulation in architecture affect human psychology? • How can architecture encourage movement without restricting a person’s free passage and decision making within the built environment? • What are the physical and psychological factors that affect people’s perception of spaces? • How can such factors be integrated, controlled or applied architecturally?
Aims The aim of this paper is to explore and investigate these subtle relationships and interconnections in order to create a taxonomy for evaluating movement in buildings. To understand and re-define the static and dynamic nature between the people (expirencee) and space (the experience).
