Sensory Architecture
Architectural experience is a complete dialogue between the mind, body, and the built environment. The incomplete dialogue will die out....
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Architecture talking to Art
the colours shapes and tones make us one but the numbers freedom and expression make us, us, our differences tell us that we fit and our....
Metaphysics Of Architecture: Change, Sense And Purpose
The notion of metaphysics in architecture is simply comprehensible: it is truly evident. Each individual is surrounded by an environment....
ARCHITECTURE OF PERCEPTION
Functionality received an unreachable and unreal status in the past century, but in our contemporary context, we need to search for a...
Implementation of Biomimicry for Sustainable Architecture
It is evident that there are many similarities between nature and architecture, some of which have been studied for centuries and others....
The Line Speed Theory
There are many speculations on why modern architecture uses much faster design than its predecessors and how well of a choice it is, but
The Perception of Space
The symbiosis that, even for a matter of pure survival, we must stimulate to enhance through the appropriate and timely adaptation .........
Quantum Urbanism
Quantum urbanism is not a theory that is based on subjective inferences, but the structure of the new world, which is based on the..........
Metaphysics of the labyrinth
the problem of interaction between the architect, as the creator of the spatial model, and the observer, as a direct participant in the ....
A Paradigm shift for Sustainability in Architecture: “Unbuilt” as an Option
What the words "sustainable architecture" first evoke in mind is probably highly associated with the process regarding the design and ......
Metaphysics in Architecture
Metaphysics by touching very intimate and sensitive spheres confronts our knowledge, challenges skills and intelligence. Although the word
Thinking the way of life
Dwelling about the past and proposing the future can be a great contribution that the wise architects of newer generation can undertake.
Reflections
this proposal is an attempt to explore the dialectical nature of setting up meaningful and shared experiences between living beings, natura
The Many Facets of Architecture: From Physical to Metaphysical
Architecture often becomes the guide leading people through the different narratives of their lives. Sometimes it is a force to behold and..
A Concrete Belief
Today, concrete is one of the commonly used building materials around the globe, irrespective of climatic regions and the design purpose.
Ottoman Era
Ottoman Architecture timeline 1616: The Mosque has a main dome, eight secondary domes, and six minarets. The design combines two...
Sustainability Principles in the Construction Industry
implementing sustainability principles in the construction industry. it is the responsibility of the present generations and today’s........
Sustainability in Architecture: a shift in mindset
The earth is presently undergoing environmental issues. The existence of those issues can be described by three factors: increase of.......
Sustainable Architecture: Zero Carbon Homes
To study how feasible these homes are on the market in the last 10 years many countries around the world including US has joined the towards
Creating Influence
Sensory Architecture became one of the most fundamental challenges designers face today, as it translates into something intangible and ....
Architecture of unconscious senses
All senses ought to be treated equally. In order to enhance emotional, physical, and psychical wellbeing for all ages, maybe the hope is in
Metaphysics in Architecture
The rationale of experiencing a space/ building/ structure is directly related to feeling our existence and being. Feeling claustrophobic
Design principles for Responsive Double-Skin Façades based on phase change materials
Excessive use in hot and arid regions such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for mechanical cooling systems to achieve thermal comfort led..
The Sense in Sensory Architecture
My hands run through the walls, feeling the chiseled textures, marveling at the amount of craftsmanship that must have gone into making them
AMBIGUOUS ARCHITECTURE
Architecture is an adventure. It doesn’t have any single obvious meaning however it is open to more than one interpretation and capable of
Neoclassical Architecture
Neoclassical architecture was a movement started in the 18th and the early 19th centuries. As the name suggests, neoclassical, it means the
Art and Architecture
The relation of art and architecture had been a long debate ever since both these fields appeared. They are considered to be sources, titles
Disenchanted Architecture: Modernism and the Humane.
The future of humane architecture might as well be dependent on finding a new balanced paradigm to work through world-wide.
ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE: THE LATER PERIOD
The Taj Mahal is one of the seven wonders in the world and there are so many reasons for it to gain that title. Taj Mahal is so well........
MEMORY.SYNERGY.
Architecture has been around for centuries, existing as a constant of our physical world, alongside mankind. The cavemen, as the name.......
The Realization of Sustainable Architecture through Modern Technology and Biological Regionalism
Modern architecture must actively use eco-friendly architecture technology, and architects must also combine bioregionalism.
ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE: SEEN AND THE UNSEEN
‘Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other;....
“Organistic” Light
Frank Lloyd Wright in his manifesto of organic architecture clearly stipulated the role nature has to take as part of the design philosophy
Purposeful Coalescence
A design holds much potential to affect environment technically and its users psychologically. The whole idea is that art and architecture
Spiritualibrium (Spiritual-Equilibrium) in Architecture
Spiritualiberium has the potential as a component to build quality architecture. Spirituality gives the capacity to manage balance-imbalance
Man is built
Architecture translates the effective urban development into reality, making it all and part of a huge scenography built piece by piece,
Experiential Architecture
Balcony and courtyard force people to interact, to respect each other’s traditions, deeply understand that completely different people with
‘Adaptability as a key to sustainable design’
Sustainable architecture can be represented by using various solutions and climate-responsive adaptive facades are just one of them.
An Attempt to Find Sensory Architecture Through the Senses
Pandemic has painstakingly made us stay enclosed within four walls of our homes for a long time already. And in these times, it might be....
Mumbai's splintering Urbanism: Poor and Rich division from socio-spatial perspective
As one of the most famous cities in India, its main lines laid in the differences that made the recent image of Mumbai. Mumbai is...........
A MELTING POT OF CULTURES: MEDIEVAL INDIAN TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE
temple architecture in India was not just a matter of constructing only aesthetically pleasing religious centres. They served multiple......
REALITY CHECK-ED?
but it speaks about the thousand other lesser-known (spoken about w.r.t architecture ) aspects that could uplift, help, and acknowledge some
Being given what you don’t realise you want
To understand Lefebvre and realise the relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture I had to give in. I imagine I am the...
Experiencing Architecture- A Dialogue between Space and Time
o determine the type and range of emotions that a built structure can inculcate in us, a lot of factors need to be considered. .............
Architecture is a language spoken without words
Why is the contribution of senses in build environments given priority only when the end-user has some sort of sensory disorder/deficiency?’
Ancient Egyptian Architecture
The Ancient Egyptian believed in life after death, which was the motive to find ways that protect the bodies in good condition, Hence the id
Architecture and Human Emotion
The existence of architecture would be absurd if there was no-one to experience it. What purpose would a beautiful stained glass window have
Metaphysics in Architecture
there are many elements beyond the walls and structural feature of a building including way-finding, association with the space, ...........
A eulogy to the mother of all arts: architecture
Sensory Architecture essay competition third prize winner. Architecture not only gives us shelter, it molds us into the human we will...
The Journey from Soil to Soil via Bricks.
Upon the termination of economic life of the structure the habitable nature of the same building reduces drastically in such a period only