XI. Site Circumstance and Idea Each project is unique since it can be very complicated programmatic and structural. it needs an idea or sometimes interrelation of several ideas. Description: Concept Illustration of Ian McQue Nowadays architecture is consisted of programs and organizers. An idea... View full entry

X. Proportion, Scale and Perception Greeks used golden ratio [Fibonacci series], π and etc., but it was not all about golden ratio but the perception. Greeks’ center of architectural creation was proportion (harmonious relation of things) which is x2-x-1=0  = 1.618033 = x=(1+Radical5)/2. we... View full entry

IX. Detail: the Haptic Realm When architecture becomes evident, haptic realm is being opened, sensory experience is being intensified and psychological dimensions start being engaged. Perception of architecture depends on materials and details and their real taste [just as a clothing style and... View full entry

VIII.              Of Sound An example of a piece of music and an architecture demonstrates that music has its materiality in instruments and sound while architecture has its materiality in light and  space. For instance in previous example the water is the overlapping refraction of... View full entry

Church Bells Ringing

The Orchestra

VII.   Water: a Phenomenal Lens Water is a major character of experiencing thus we know it as “phenomenal lens” and its powers are: A. Reflection B. Spatial reversal C. Refraction D. Transformation of light rays In autumn colors are more intense as they are reflected by the water or... View full entry

VOID SPACE/HINGED SPACE HOUSING by Steven Holl

VI.  Time Duration and Perception [This part of our articles provides you a basic understanding of "Duration"] Perceptual  experience of architecture is a form of concentrated energy and is called lived time which is in memory but soul Media has created a dismemberment. Duration or “duree’... View full entry

V.   Spatiality of Night  Before the 20th century the night-space was all similar but thereafter it changed to a lot different thing as the night has been fulfilled with light. NYC is the gray shaded environment of the day and the lighting in the night (or a night sun such as skyscrapers)... View full entry

IV.    Of Light and Shadow Metaphysics and spirituality of architecture is driven by light and shadow. They are shaped by solids and voids with special features of opacity, transparency and translucency. Sometimes material of an art work is the light itself as it’s been seen in James Turrell's... View full entry

III.          Of Colors Colors are indeterminacy in an exact way since phenomena of colors is affected by opacity, transparency and lighting, so then it’s a different issue from colors’ wave in physics. A simple object can expose a variety of colors under the rays of sun and its... View full entry

                                         Enmeshed Experience II.  Perspectival Space (     If you are a newbie student of Architecture and you have no background or partial background in phenomenology the following text is going to explain the text below:      When you... View full entry

                                          Enmeshed Experience I.   The merging of object and field (If you are a newbie student of Architecture and you have no background in phenomenology the following text is going to explain the following: When you are designing as a novice... View full entry