Mastery of Spaces
life is a playground
Phenomenology of Architecture
As Scotland moves ahead with both an ambitious school building programme and forward-thinking
educational reforms, Bronwen Cohen explores the background to “Making Space 2010”, an exciting
design programme which aims to focus international vision on the importance of space.
Architecture, beside its functional issues, it is a form of art that communicates to
human beings without verbal language. Hence, buildings do not function like a
machine or a divider of different human beings, but function as a link that evokes
people's inner souls and create unity. Architecture communicates with people
through human senses. It is its interaction with people's senses that makes its
existence in our world, enrich our lives and experiences.
This thesis will focus on how the physical world could alter people’s emotion, trigger
the memory, inspire the mind and purifies the soul through its connection with human
senses, which includes sight, smell, touch and sound. If the objective world cannot be
sensed and perceived, then it does not exist in our world. Through human senses, the
objective world enters the subjective world. The existence and the state of the
subjective world is determined by our inner beings. More positivity given by the
physical world, more positively the human’s inner beings can be affected, hence more
positive things can enter one’s world, which forms a positive cycle.