Architectural Blur-Synaesthesia in a Sculpture Museum.

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synaesthesia 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 synaesthesia as real. Can everyone experience synaesthesia? While people experience synaesthesia, can they discriminate those senses that they feel? It depends on their abilities to experience synaesthesia or their sensibility, knowledge, memory, emotional condition etc. Generally synesthetic experience is blurry. However synesthetic experience can be divided into obvious and blur synaesthesia. Blur synaesthesia means something that we can’t easily understand the intentions of artists because of its complexity. Obvious synaesthesia means the contrary concept. Generally If we make projects, the whole thing will give blur- synaesthesia because of the complexity of them (combination of many fragments). However, the whole has other fragments like rooms, the room can be another whole. In the end, one element can overwhelm the whole condition in the finite space. This means architecture can simultaneously give blur and obvious synesthetic experience. Architects can compel to feel something that they intend. Also, Architects can create ambiguous spaces, then visitors can feel something that they want to feel according to their physical and psychology conditions. This will be blurry synaesthesia. Lots of fragments can strongly influence the whole condition and harmonize with the whole things including other fragments that have consistent architectural language. Also only one fragment overwhelms 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 influence visitors' behaviors and emotion. The solutions will be relationships among five senses that can be made of materials, color, natural elements, density of space etc. With these elements, we can give synesthetic experience as we know through our researches.
Every sense can stimulate other senses, and it can be stimulated by other senses in common life. However the relationships among five senses should be selected for architectural languages. Especially I have interests in a fact that vision can stimulate another vision of sense. This is “associative synaesthesia.” When we see something that has close relationships with other objects, we can image the origin of the associated them. This synesthetic experience can be useful for architectural structural systems. Also several chosen relationships among five senses will make harmony in my project. Each relationship will strongly influence finite spaces. People can find something that I don’t intend. So combinations of different synesthetic experience will make synaesthesia blurry.