Figure 3: Illustration to portray cohesion and sense of space (pg

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. 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).

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Objectives

To study connectivity between various essential nodes and use this connectivity as a motivational factor towards promoting human circulation. To examine social cohesion and sense of space, promoting various movements like expressed movement, contained movement and represented movement where there is an implication or illusion that the architecture is in motion. To analyse the visual dynamism of forms that evoke movement. Scope & Limitations

This research studies movement patterns in architecture with respect to museums in an urban context as a generic typology. No specific type of museum or particular kind of exhibits have been considered. As this research study has taken place during a pandemic, the research range has been limited to a desktop study and readings.