| Title |
A Phenomenological Study on the Apparent Mobility of Architectural Space |
| Abstract |
Based on our concrete experience, architectural space is not a homogeneous and sterile void indifferent to material objects. It moves and pauses, expands and contracts, rises and falls. It impresses us with varying mobility by way of dynamic interactions with objects, yearning to move about in all directions against the tendency of the objects to confine and control it. This integrative dynamics of space is attributable to our propensity to project ourselves into space and matter to share their actions and reactions. The case in point can be vividly illustrated by examples from the history of architecture, ancient through modern. Each building and each style display a particular mode of interactions between space and matter. In some cases kinetic tendency and in others quiescent tendency prevails, or a delicate balance may ensue between the two tendencies.Architectural space is indeed a three-dimensional field which our nonphysical extended being fills and moves about in. The mobility of architectural space is therefore a reflection of the movement of our extended being, mediated by free and spontaneous imagination. Architecture, if it is to accommodate the totality of our being, has to provide for our nonphysical movement as well as our physical movement. |