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 dont 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. Its 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 ones body. Spaces
cant live without atmosphere. Atmosphere is the result of our sixth feeling.
We may not know whats 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 artists
sensitivity and imagination of reality was transposed into what visitors
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