1.4 INFERENCE

The perception of a place is not only physical or emotional, but allows the user to adapt his/her behaviour according to the properties of the place. In this way the user starts feeling accepted and secure in the environment. This psychological adaptation is activated through human interpretation to achieve the emotional feeling of security and control.

However, a few considerations show us that ‘time’ is inseparably connected with built

space. At least three temporal aspects are important. There is, first of all, the influence of space on the experience of time passage. Second, there is the perceived duration of the age of a building, the realization of long stretches of time that results from the alteration of the world over years or millennia.

Finally, there is the aspect of timelessness of the design principles of architecture. Beauty is essentially human; it transcends the individual. People of all ages were exposed to the same existential constraints which are reflected in architecture. Now it is how humans of every era perceive the same space differently and how there has been a change in outlook and way of looking at spaces.

Due to several changes even the same function or activity might have a different meaning today. This depends on how the user group interprets it after considering various factors like growth, technology, human behaviour, among a few.