Accommodation of spiritual spatial experience in a modern urban fabric

Accommodation of spiritual spatial experience in a modern urban fabric

Uygur, D.

Healy, P.E. (mentor)
Nottrot, R.J. (mentor)
Cuperus, Y.J. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

Explore Lab

2016-01-20

The entirety of built environment exists in a state of flux and adaptation under the effect of a mutual relation between society and its spatial outcomes. Since human beings’ existence cannot be separated from space and its man-made forms, built environment can alter people through embedded biases. And these biases are mostly manifested by accepted life-styles and consequently by particular design approaches that promote particular understandings, ideologies, belief systems or values over others. Considering the human activities that form the space under the name of architecture, the entirety of built environment supposedly encompasses the human needs. When it is about the spatial human needs, the quality of space is not only responsible to shelter and organize human life, but also responsible for the intuitive and spiritual needs of human nature. Freedom of imagination can be provided by space that unfolds the authenticity of human emancipation, which requires the integration of the spiritual and the artistic during spatial experience. On a larger scale, in today’s modern life, cities and buildings are human-made places that merely organize human life, instead of involving these intuitive human needs. Cities don’t speak of the spiritual, but, on purpose, keep people’s attention focused on the mechanically fixed patterns of human community itself. The modern city is today a mass movement, and the streets, with their high potential to be publicly used, are invaded by modern mobility under the name of freedom of accessibility. Considering the existed priorities of modern urban fabric, such as productively and fastness, streets are the places where these rituals happen in a plural form. The position of streetscape zones might offer a new layer for spirituality, which is experienced individually but encompassed publically.

spiritual experience
transcending architecture
poetics of space
urban fabric
mobility
streetscape

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