Wednesday, October 25, 2006

precis #1

Synesthesia is involuntary joining in which the real information of one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense. This additional perception is regarded by the synesthesia as real. Can everyone experience synesthesia? While people experience synesthesia, can they discriminate those senses that they feel? It depends on their abilities to experience synesthesia or their sensibility, knowledge, memory, emotional condition etc. most synesthetic experience is blur. However synesthetic experience can be divided into obvious and blur synesthesia. Generally If we make projects, the whole thing will give blur synesthesia because of the their complexity(combination of many fragments). However, the whole has other fragments like rooms, the room can be another whole. In the end, one element can control the whole condition in the infinite space. This means architecture can give blur and obvious synesthetic experience. I can compel to feel something that I intend. Also, I can create ambiguous spaces, then visitors can feel something that they want to feel according to their physical and psychology conditions. This will be blur synesthesia. lots of fragments can control the whole condition and harmonize with the whole things including other fragments that have consistent architectural language. Also only one fragment control the whole.
If the meaning of fragments (details) was expanded, a building should be a detail of a city. Also the building can give synesthetic experience. I want to make a project that can be a great detail of a given site, and I'm thinking abut how to control visitors' behaviors. The solutions can be materials, color, natural elements, density of space. With those elements, we can give synesthetic experience as we know through our researches. To be a detail of given site, I think my project should have strong physical or social connections. So parasitic architecture and Jewish museum in Berlin are so interesting to me. parasitic architecture has so strong connections with the given sites and buildings. Especially the Jewish museum also has connections, and try to control visitors' emotions and behaviors. So my self-assignment will be researches about how to control human behaviors in the Jewish Museum and how to connect to the old and new buildings.
Program will be museum that can control human emotion. I'm trying to find my site that has can be connected with my new project.

1 comment:

marc said...

you need to map out these psychological conditions somehow...
i think it is dangerous to say you are going to control human emotion...
what do you mean by this?