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Journal Article
Geometry in Architecture
2020
Overview
Architects typically use geometry to give buildings a unified appearance; however, design-oriented use of geometry neglects human experience in favor of issues such as constructability and the architect’s design prowess. Use of geometry establishes spatial patterns within the experiencing observer, who, in everyday life, lacks attentive awareness of that geometry but is nevertheless affected by pre-reflective life. This research implicates traditional narratives about the structure of human perception as being limiting for design. In particular, by seeking an explanation in geometrically static representations, orthodox narratives of perception exclude other factors central to embodiment and the function of perception, like temporality and movement within lived-experience. Instead of experience being neglected, the study of perception can expand the scope of architectural design to include the fullness of human experience that is granted in perception and shift from positioning of the body in Euclidian space to embodiment conferring a spatial relation within architectural encounters. For example, ecological psychology considers the geometry of environment as giving structured information to visual experience and phenomenology attributes perceptual engagement with the physical world as a continually situated consciousness in the world, enveloping us in the geometric structure of space as an aspect of perception itself. This paper demonstrates that order in architecture available through its geometric structure can inform an occupant through embodied perception and thereby provides part of an existential ground of being.
