The architecture of the seven senses

The architecture of our time is an art of the printed image fixed by the hurried eyes of the camera . As building lose their plasticity and their connection with the language and wisdom of the body , they become isolated in the cool and distant realm of vision . Our structure become repulsively flat , sharp edged immaterial and unreal . Natural material expresses its age and history as well as tale of its birth and human use , but the materials of today sheets of glasses , enameled metal and synthetic materials , present their unyielding surface to the eyes without conveying anythings of their materials essence or age . Painting and sculpture have lost their sensuality and instead of intimacy work of art frequently signal a distancing rejection of sensuous curiosity . Architecture of the senses is the five senses were understood to form a system from the highest sense of vision down to the lowest sense , Touch the system of sense was related to the image of the cosmic body .Every touching experience of architecture is multi sensory , qualities of matter space and scale are measured equally by the eyes , ear , nose , skin , tongue , skeleton and muscle , Architecture involves seven realms of sensory experience which interact and infuse each other . The sense do not only mediate information for the judgment of the intellect , they are also a means of sensory thought . Acoustic intimacy , every building or space has its characteristic sound of intimacy or monumentality , rejection or invitation hospitality or hostility . Sight makes us solitary , whereas hearing creates a sense of connection and solidarity . We stroke the edges of the space with our ear , but the contemporary city has lost its echo . Silence , time and solitude , the most essential auditory experience created by architecture is tranquillity . Architecture presents the drama of construction silenced into matter ans space , architecture is the art of petrified silence . Architecture experience silenced all external noise , architecture as all art , makes us aware of our fundamental solitude . Building and cities are instruments and museums of time ,they enable us to see and understand the passing of history . Experiencing a work of art is a private between the work and the viewer that excludes other interactions . Art is made by alone for the alone . Art projects an unattainable idea . Space of scent , the strong memory of a space is often its odor , a particular smell may make us secretly re-enter a space that has been completely erased from the retinal memory , the nostrils project a forgotten image and we are enticed to enter a vivid daydream . Abandoned houses always have the same hollow smell , its because the particular smell is caused by the visual emptiness observed by the eyes . Contemporary images of architecture appear sterile and lifeless as compared to the emotional and associative power . The shapes of touch , the skin reads the texture , weight ,density and temperature of matter . The skin traces space of temperature with unerring precision . We trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles , the sun is healing experience , it makes one part of the eternal cycle of nature , one senses the slow breathing of the earth . There is strong identity between the skin and the sensation of home . The experience of home is essentially and experience of warmth .Great architecture offers shape and surface molded for the pleasurable touch of the eye . The eye is the sense of separation and distance , whereas touch is the sense of nearness , intimacy and affection . images of muscle and bone , primitive man used his body as the dimensioning and proportioning system of his construction . The essence of a tradition is the wisdom of the body stored in the memory . A building is not an end to itself , it frames , articulates , restructures , gives significance and unites . We behold touch , listen and measure the world with our entire bodily existence and the experiential world is organized around the center of the body . Bodily identification , perceptively of necessity of a bodily identification in art , this is what the sculptor must do , he must strive continually to think of and use from in its full spatial completeness . A work of art function as another person , with whom we converse . In a sense the landscape painter must almost look at the landscape as if it were himself , himself as a human being , the landscape thinks through him and he is the consciousness of the landscape . We feel pleasure and protection when the body discovers its resonance in space . The sense of gravity is the essence of all architecture structure and great architecture makes us conscious of gravity and earth . Taste of architecture , vision becomes transferred to taste certain colors as well as delicate . What lies within the darkness one con not distinguish , but the palm senses the gentle movement of the liquid , vapor rises from within forming droplets on the rim and a fragrance carried the vapor brings a delicate anticipation . The task of architecture , the timeless task of architecture is to create embodied existential metaphors that structure man being in the world . Architecture enable us to pace ourselves in the continuum of culture . Our home and domicile are integrated with our self-identity they become part of our own body and begin . Architecture is the art of mediation and reconciliation . I do experience my sense when i inter a religion places such as temple , church or mosque , i experience it by my eyes , ear nose and touch , almost all of my sense . On the other hand , when i go back to my home town i alway have the smell sense , as like i reach home already . some time i try to apply some of it on my design by the eye sense , as putting the nice and slow colors which make the human to feel comfortable , or by touching the materials . there are many things which really can connect the architecture with the our senses , and it's make the design wonderful and interesting to the human being .