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Architecture, an important part of our The most important is sight, which gives
environment, disturbs our experiences, us knowledge of three dimensions and
feelings, memories, and ultimately the colour.
decisions we make. To explore the
connection between architecture and the Listening helps us to feel the building from
human Senses was the intention aimed at a safe and relaxing point of view, so that
my paper. Whether positive or negative, we can sleep in comfort.
everything created or done by man has an
effect on his environment. Some people Touch is very important, as an
are more aware of their architectural architectonic feeling of each and every
environment some are less but at the end object is perceived by this sense, for
we all live with it and have at least an example, a faucet in a bath that is smooth
unconscious impression of it. We to the touch, a towel that is soft to the
understand buildings through our senses. touch, or soap that is leathery to the touch.
Although the five basic senses are often The sense of touch is the most intimate
studied as individual systems covering when buildings are considered.
visual, auditory, tastesmell, orientation
and the haptic sensations, there is interplay Well, smell gives us a sense of cleanliness
between the senses. or dirtiness, of a turbid or rotten or fresh
feel, and the ambience is felt first-hand
Introduction: with this sense.
If the body had been easier to understand, Taste is not directly effective in buildings.
nobody would have thought we had a
mind[1]. Thermal qualities warm, cool, humid,
airy, radiant, cosy - are an important part
- Richard Rorty (1979) of our experience of a space, they not only
influence what we choose to do there but
The five senses felt by the eyes, ears, nose, also show how we feel about the space.
mouth and skin. We understand buildings
through our senses. The integration of The light quality direct, indirect, natural,
senses using reason and logic. Rational artificial, diffuse, dappled, focused can be
thought expressed via self-awareness and