Wellbeing in the Built Environment: Designing Discontinuities Between Function and Semantic | The Plan Journal

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Subscribers only
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Essay
Authors 
Nicoletta Brancaccio
Davide Giacomo Maria Gattoni
Federico Niola
Stefano Rozzi
Section 
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES
ABSTRACT -

Space is relational. How many relationships can occupy a space? How do they work? These are both interesting questions that we would like to answer. We know that we interact with space and that its configuration affects us: we can be aggregative while experiencing it, rather than competitive. Space has considerable power in influencing our brain. Essentially, our actions are somehow manipulated by what we see and what we touch. How does our space (peripersonal space) interfere with another’s? The idea of interaction within space (or social space) and space of selfhood thus becomes an essential subject for architecture and cannot be simply parameterized in a geometric manner. Physical space must, therefore, allow solitary or cooperative movement without alienating the individual. We base our judgments on movement, culture, personal psychical characteristics, memory, and personal experience. Taking these elements as our base, we gave a new perspective for designers to draw from the semantic, which can be rhetorical and disconnected by the function.

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