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4/08/2016
What happens in architecture when the sense of sight is taken away? Architecture as an experience comes from how we move through a space. The experience begins when the senses of the body are heightened. These senses are sight, sound, smell, touch, taste and gravity. Gravity is a combination of sight and touch, it is the force that our surroundings exert on our bodies as we are moving through space. As humans, we are visually dominant beings. We have two eyes, forward facing above our ears, nose, and mouth resulting in a priority of vision that overtakes our sensual experience and dulls out the other senses. Today, architecture has become so focused on the visual experience that the potential for a multi-sensorial experience has been muted...(more)
