| Title |
Methods of Constructing Perceptual Experience in Yoshio Taniguchi’s Museums |
| Authors |
김지홍(Kim, Jihong) ; 권조일(Kwon, Joil) ; 윤성호(Yoon, Sung-Ho) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2026.35.4.118 |
| Keywords |
Yoshio Taniguchi; Museum; Merleau-Ponty; Phenomenology; Perceptual Experience |
| Abstract |
Visitors’ perceptual experience in museum architecture has emerged as a central challenge in spatial design, particularly as experience-centered exhibitions increasingly rely on digital technologies and interactive media. This study aims to examine the methods by which such experience is constructed in Yoshio Taniguchi’s museum spaces, using Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology as a theoretical foundation, and to propose new directions for human-centered museum spatial design. Three characteristics of Taniguchi’s museum design were cross-analyzed with three dimensions of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological perception, yielding a three-stage perceptual experience structure ?convergence, circulation, and expansion?along with nine detailed components as an analytical framework. Case studies were conducted on six representative museums designed by Taniguchi in Japan (1990?2013). The analysis revealed that perceptual experience is not fragmented movement but an integrated structural process: convergence concentrates the macroscopic external environment into internalized perception; circulation guides continuous bodily experience through organized spatial sequences; and expansion extends heightened inner senses back to the external locational context. This study presents a structural model for human-centered museum design and holds academic significance in demonstrating that a profound perceptual experience can be created solely through pure architectural spatial composition. |