An architecture of Seven Senses

After reading the article, i found that myself are having/using some of the senses when i experiencing a structure or building. When i first visit a place or space or building which i never been there before, i will feel the environment through my ear by hearing, eye by seeing and my hand by touching frequently. By doing this, i can experience and appreciate more the art of work of the structure or the building.

The body senses help me a lot in better experiencing a building where i not only can see the beauty the building design but also i can feel the space psychologically through my senses. When i experiencing a building, i'm alway look into its detail such as the structure details, joints and etc.where i may use it as a reference into my own design.

There are some other authors have wrote the same similar topic.Laura Hollengreen, Georgia Insitute of Technology has wrote “Jewish Bodies, Christian Senses, Urban Spaces” where she related architecture structure and material with the religion senses in he space. Nina Ergin, Koc University has wrote“Olfactory Aspects of Ottoman Mosque Architecture” which about how Muslims feel the senses of architecture of Mosque when they are praying. Jack Quinan, State University of New York at Buffalo has wrote “The Soundscapes of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building” which experiencing the building by senses of listening.

The Momument, Testimony & Memory

After i read through the article, i can say that the Jewish Museum Berlin by Daniel Libeskind is successful in commemorating the dead. Daniel Libeskind has use 2 different kind f line which is including a straight line, but broken into many fragment, and the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely"The design is based on a rather involved process of connecting lines between locations of historic events and locations of Jewish culture in Berlin. These lines form a basic outline and structure for the building. Libeskind also has used the concepts of absence, emptiness, and the invisible—expressions of the disappearance of Jewish culture in the city—to design the building. This concept takes form in a kinked and angled sequence through the building, orchestrated to allow the visitor to see (but not to enter) certain empty rooms, which Libeskind terms ‘voided voids.’ The ideas which generate the plan of the building repeat themselves on the surface of the building, where voids, windows, and perforations form a sort of cosmological composition on an otherwise undifferentiated, zig-zagging zinc surface." (quote from http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/jewishmuseum/).

He use this kind of line as his design concept into the museum to present or mirror the history between the Jew and German in the past. The museum itself has been designed in such way where visitor are not just getting know about the history/the dead physically but also spiritually when their experience inside the museum.Daniel Libeskind has divided the interior space of the museum into separate space such as the Void which all connected by the 3 underground 'roads' which representing 3 separate stories.This will maximize the feeling of the visitors.

Else, the National Museum in Malaysia has been designed and built more look like cultural-influenced design where the architect have put the local culture elements into the building interior and exterior. With this, i can say that, although the National Museum have the same intention and usage like the Jewish Museum in Berlin, but the design of the building is less spiritual and psychological effect on the visitors.

Remembering The Home

When i was young, i has been moving my house for three times. So i can say that i have 3 homes. In he early age, i live with my parents in my grandfather's house where my uncles and aunties were stay together with us. In my grandfather's house, what have influenced my was the surrounding landscape where my grandpa's house was surrounding by tree and plant. This have inspired me where green plants will bring us fresher air and cooler environment.

Besides, my grandpa's house were the place where i getting know about architecture planning for the first time in my life where my family have be place to live and stay in a private room for us same like my other uncles and aunties whereas we having other family's activities together in a space such as dinner and watching tv. From this i know that a house should be divides into different partition for different activities and different priority level.

When i was age of 10, i have been more out from my grandpa's house because of too crowded in my grandpa's house. My 1st new house was a ordinary double storey cheap housing besides the planting forest. The house was very small but surrounded with different races of people where my neighbor was an Indian family. Here, i found out that landscape are really important in architecture where the the planting forest beside my house not just serve as planting forest but it also serve as a cooling plant for the surrounding area where it could bring wind to us and blocking the hot and shinning sunshine from the houses.

Whereas i move to my current home when i was age of 13 where it is just another ordinary terrace house like other. This house didn't inspired me at all in architecture way because it was a very normal house for me. After that, I get to know more about architecture through out my experience in my life such as by reading, studies and information for the internet.