| Title |
Emotionally Charged Personal Field and its Implications to Architectural Space |
| Abstract |
As a study on the extra-somatic human spatiality, this paper investigates the emotionally charged personal field, which surrounds our body, identifying its spatio-dynamic properties and shedding light on the implications to architectural space. The theoretical bases are sought in the findings and hypotheses of behavioural science, psychiatry, language and traditional concepts relating to the dynamics of interpersonal spacing and emotional person-environment interactions. Architectural space implications of personal field are discussed with reference to its size, shape and emotional resonance and charge. The conception of extra-somatic personal field interacting with the environment leads to the perception that person and the world are fused together in space. Namely, space can be seen not as something that separates between people and things but as a dynamic field of being in which they are immersed and through which they are interrelated. |