Space.Emotion.Architecture

The experience of a space is a multi-sensory feeling in its deepest essence. It is not only visual perceptual as many will assume it is, but the space has the great quality of a simultaneous reaction of the senses, fusion of countless factors which are immediately felt as an overall atmosphere,feeling, reaction. We observe with all our senses at once. An immediate perception of the space recalls for our entire existential sense at once. We don’t always know what we enjoy about a space, but we know we feel good about it. That is because sometimes our heart, through an unconscious way, feels the space way before our eyes can see. Greatest art was the one we could never understand through rational ways.

Space is abstract, space is ephemeral. It’s identity is given by a unique character of what that space brings to the visitor. From a space, through experiences, we define and transform it into that space, that atmosphere, that moment, that place. Man has this huge emotional capacity to feel instinctually a space through its own sensibility. Therefore, no space can exist without feelings, without waking up emotions in one’s body. Spaces can’t live without atmosphere. Atmosphere is the result of our sixth feeling. We may not know what’s with a place, but we imidiately know if we like it or not. That is why, we can build forms, but the forms will define spaces only through human experiences. That is why it is so important for architects to first understand the human behaviour. Architecture calls for a deepened sense of materiality, gravity and reality, not an air of entertainment or fantasy. The power of architecture is in its ability to strengthen the experience of the real, and even its imaginative dimension arises from this strengthened and re-sensitized sense of reality. The experience of a space will always include the dimension of time, as experiencing implies duration and requires imagination and memory.

Architecture is nothing but inhabited sculpture. The feeling when watching a painting or another work of art is nothing but the feeling entering a space. The sensations and the emotions are just feelings seeing how an artist’s sensitivity and imagination of reality was transposed into what visitor’s reality actually is. Both the space and the human have a symbiosis relationship. Humans live only in spaces, endless types and forms of different spaces and at the same time , a space will never exist without human emotion.

"Art must give suddenly, all at once, the shock of life, the sensation of breathing." Constantin Brancusi, romanian sculptor