According to Juhani Pallasmaa (1994), “a real architectural experience is not simply a series of retinal images; a building is encountered - it is approached, confronted, encountered, related to one’s body, moved about, utilized as a condition of other things...” (p.46). This practicum addresses the notion that space is ‘encountered’ through the exploration of human perception as both a biological process as well as a phenomenological event. The research methods and information gathering techniques that were used included a literature review on two-dimensional and three-dimensional space perception, an exploration of both visual impairment and space perception, and a survey of functional design aspects of eye clinics. The intent of the project is to provide a place that enhances the experience of space such that it brings visible, the invisible nature of being in the world.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:MWU.1993/8690 |
| Date | 07 September 2012 |
| Creators | Mah, Aimee |
| Contributors | Roshko, Tijen (Interior Design), Beecher, Mary Anne (Interior Design) Minuk, Neil (Architecture) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Detected Language | English |
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