Course Description:
The fourth dimension of space description is presented through responsive architecture and walkthrough experiences using animation software. Notable holistic or partial examples of architecture will be re-derived with added motion factors.
The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis. Yet this concept of user experience is so often neglected in architectural study and practice.
This course aims to:
- Develop the student?s conceptual and theoretical thinking.
- Allow students to learn how to concentrates on the individual's experiences inside buildings, and particularly on the primacy of walking.
- Encourage the student to engage other senses besides the visual in the activity of walking in relation to architecture.
- Define the spaces through which we move, both by laying out routes and boundaries and by celebrating thresholds.
- Teach the basics about circulation routes which are the form of movement that humans control as their basic activity.
- Understand the pathways people take through and around buildings or urban places are stories we create as the users of buildings and spaces.
- Develop the student's awareness about the modern and contemporary theories which revolve around the matters of walking and moving in relation to the built environment.