A Way of looking at things, 1988
“The strength of a good design lies in ourselves and our ability to perceive the world with both emotion and reason. Good architecture is sensuous, it’s intelligent”
Designing with a sense of conceptual and spatial sensitivity, Peter Zumthor’s ‘Thinking architecture’ reaches out beyond form and construction toward the experiential realm; focusing on the importance of incorporating ‘the senses’ within the design. Following Zumthor’s early childhood memories, accounting his personal experience and development of spatial awareness; I begin questioning my own perceptions on the environment, specifically how we unconsciously react and are influenced by the forms that shape the spaces in which we move and inhabit:
Is it that we each have our own individual realms within the built environment? Are buildings merely a backdrop for life’s processes?
A time has come to look beyond the ‘defined’ and start intuitively ‘sensing’ our surroundings without conscious thought.
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