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Architecture for The Senses: A more-than visual approach to Museum Architecture

Muralidharan, Dilip
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554211453833306

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2019, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Architecture is essentially considered as a visual experience and is arguably categorized under visual arts. The built environment around us with which we interact with daily, is often designed and perceived visually, which accounts for the visual bias in architecture. The space confined by architectural boundaries is often mistaken as emptiness, devoid of any medium. Visual qualities of our built environment are often prioritized over the architectural experiences it should be creating through collaboration of our senses. If we consider space as a living entity capable of stimulating our senses, it opens a whole new world of sensory cues waiting to interact with the inhabitant’s senses. This world of sensory information includes light and shadow, color and contrast, scale and proportion, textures and materiality, reverberating sound, varying temperatures, smells that seduce us, and many more. Our senses interact with this sensory environment, which in fact, instills a sense of place in our brain, thus creating a permanent memory which pins ourselves to the location through proprioception. The architectural experience created by built environment plays a major role in imparting this sense of place within us, and that’s the reason why architects should identify and perceive the experiential quality of the spaces early in their design process. Through this thesis project I’d like to address the issue of visual bias in architecture, and design a Museum curating natural elements, with focus on creating an experience by encouraging its users to interact and perceive with one or all of their senses, the unity of senses. The different physical states of matter and other material properties that enables natural elements; Earth, Air, Water, and Fire; to stimulate more than one sense in our body will be used to create more-than-visual sensory experiences within the museum. The Winter Garden combines all these perceptions into one holistic sensory experience by engaging non-visual senses, hence the unity of senses, that acts as an urban sanctuary which in turn creates a sense of place, providing opportunity for visitors to contemplate, or interact with nature within the museum envelope, even during those frigid days of Chicago winters.
Jeffrey Tilman, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Vincent Sansalone, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
81 p.
Architecture
visual bias in architecture; multi-sensory architecture; emotive architecture; human centered design

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  • Muralidharan, D. (2019). Architecture for The Senses: A more-than visual approach to Museum Architecture [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554211453833306

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Muralidharan, Dilip. Architecture for The Senses: A more-than visual approach to Museum Architecture. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554211453833306.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Muralidharan, Dilip. "Architecture for The Senses: A more-than visual approach to Museum Architecture." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554211453833306

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