ECOLOGICAL PERCEPTION

from Architectural Portfolio - Purvi Gargayan

COALESCE

A Museum of emotions

ARCH 805 Design 5: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO Professor: William Macdonald

Experiments in ‘Meta-Affordances’ and other Manifold Manifestations of ‘Ecological Perception/Action in Architecture’ and/or, rather The Museum of Emotions.

Film is a dynamic representational medium offering the ability to collapse time and compose visual narratives frame-by-frame. Like cinematography, architecture engages spaces within the view frame as well as the ambient effects of spaces beyond. In both practices, time may be translated into measures of movement and occupancies of space. Movie emotion, is tightly framed and boundaried but permissive and uncontrolled in content.

The idea was to exchange and fusion the object and subject through a movie sequence and analysing emotions frame by frame. Eventually creating a 3-dimentional architectural form which will derive different emotion in a user . The role of architecture is to enrich an environment and infuse it with emotion through its interaction in space. It possesses the ability to shape space, softening or hardening surfaces, volumes and profiles, generating an ever evolving experience. Allowing the user to see the horrifying beauty and imagine a full spectrum of joyful activities inside spaces that are naturally formed. It can be “mystical” as well as “serene” or “chaotic” and “complex”.

MOVIE- REAR WINDOW

1. A sequence of a scene from the movie “Rear Window” The main protagonist rushing towards the door in panic.

Overlapping each frame of the scene with respect to time, space and motion. The resulting image creates a space through light and shadow.

EDGERTON EFFECTOverlapping of scenes

EMOTION:

IDEONOMIES: TRAPPED FRANTIC, AGITATED, PANICKY, DISTRAUGHT

It is but the ideas of forms and spaces.The complexities are visible from the outside. The intersection of planes shows the chaoticness with intertwingling thoughts. The structure looks like a free collage of variegated surfaces and materials. The spaces embrace individuality and celebrated the lonesome. It creates many individual spaces in one large space. It gives us a sense of belonging, where the user perceives the space as an extension of themselves. It emphasizes a provocative assemblage of assorted elements, and spaces, in the case of this project attains a monumental quality.

Light has the ability to create the space that surrounds it, revealing its essence with a power that goes beyond simply illuminating an object; it becomes a means of construction, efficient and emotional, yet completely untouchable. Reflective — Where the design evokes meaning to the user that impacts their experience.The link to the user’s memory and sense of belonging is where the user perceives the space as an extension of themselves.