Fidel Meraz Fidel.Meraz@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Architecture
Dr Eleonora Nicoletti Eleonora.Nicoletti@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Architecture & Environmental Engineering
Merate Barakat Merate.Barakat@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Computational Architecture
Abstract
It is often found that architectural spaces are designed primarily through visual geometrical procedures, privileging a standardised kind of user experience. Vision has been given a prominent role in the spatial experience. However, as we might be insisting, spatial experiences are multisensorial.
The presentation of this research-in-progress aims to, firstly show two pilot experiential installations as platforms pursuing the field of sensorial adaptive spaces (Meraz & Barakat 2019, Barakat, Meraz, Nicoletti 2022) and the research frameworks identifying spatial features that can promote aural wellbeing experiences by exploring them with phenomenological methodologies. The first installation has a performative, philosophical and artistic orientation.
The second one has a pedagogical approach incorporating digital fabrication methods and testing the grounds for future more systematic installations for experiential enjoyment, exploring and learning. The second aim is to suggest the potential of technological enhancements and the thirdly aims is to suggest design strategies to make space inclusive of sensory-diverse users. On the one hand, phenomenological methodologies are outlined to explore salient dimensions offering theoretical frameworks. On the other hand, computational architecture and digital fabrication methods offer integrative synergies between mathematics, biological systems, and design processes to enhance sensory stimuli for a broader range of people.
Presentation Conference Type
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Conference Name
In-Presence / The Body and The Space: The role of corporeity in the era of virtualization
