Abstract
Architecture is generally understood as a visual and material art form, a spatial framing of human existence and activities. However, we dwell in time as much as in space, and architecture mediates equally our relationship with this mysterious dimension, giving it its human measure. In recent architecture, design has prioritized an engagement with time through its creation of temporary and highly flexible structures. There has however been less focus on how the design of such temporal spaces might impact the experience of time of the people who inhabit them. The desire to catch the moment and to leave something behind us is part of the creative process. The push and pull of design and construction, and the hard realities of a design team working in a competitive environment to ‘find time’, can be achieved through identification of tools of temporality that can help in triggering a temporal experience, for places and duration are integral components of the existential experience itself. We sense the world and ourselves through the horizon defined by our structures – material and mental, built and metaphysical – and this relationship gives the experience of being its very meaning. Using temporality as an ideation in spatial narratives crafts a new humanized module, a module that is interdependent on the physicality and the ethos of culture a space possesses and helps in crafting of places i.e. spaces with individualistic identities that trigger a temporal continuum with the users.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
KEYWORDS
Architecture, Temporality, Space, Narrative, Experientiality, Placemaking, Contextualization, Culture, Existentialism
