The human body has often been neglected in the context of architectural reception, however it is the essential prerequisite of all our perception and understanding, thought and action. So, we asked ourselves: How can the corporeal reading of Aarhus help us define the relationship between architecture and film?
We were invited with Mindful Spatial Experiencing by Copenhagen Architecture Festival to co-teach at their Summer School at Aarhus School for Architecture, Denmark. In our post CAFx Summer School you can find out all about the process and in here we are presenting workshop’s final outcome “From the infinite to the point”.
“From the infinite to the point” is a poetic discussion about the cinematic non-physical space in relation to the physical space that we experience with our body. Our final work is a documentation of the process that we had undergone, translating our sensory experiences of space into the “Sensory poems”. They reinterpret space in a cinematic way without actually being the cinema.
SENSORY POEM #1
Just like movies the architecture too, is perceived in terms of frames, sequences, time and movement. From where we are – physically, emotionally and mentally – details, such as light, colour and images come together to create an atmosphere and to describe a story. This poem invites you to participate in composing your own story within a certain space and time.
SENSORY POEM #2
Just like in movies in architecture too, the settings we create play a big role in whether we believe the story or not. We are often witnessing attempts of creating and atmosphere only through plain visual means and forget about the immense potential of our multi-sensory bodily experience.
SENSORY POEM #4
This Sensory poem makes you aware of the sound of the space. By separating the hearing from your body, it is taking you out of it, making you into an active of the complexity of our space perception.
SENSORY POEM #5
This Sensory poem is turning a picture into frames and colours. It is filtering the world making 3D into 2D and taking you out of your body, but into the space.
SENSORY POEM #7
This small box contains 3.91 seconds in time and space. Sketches presented on 94 white squares were designed to show the extensions between the temporal and atemporal architectural forms. They represent a time lapse that creates a fragile and delicate structure.
SENSORY POEM #8
This Sensory poem is an interpretation of space through sound. It is discussing the emotive nature of our space perception using sound recording and acoustic manipulation. The soundscape is composed around two recordings made wit the Sensory poem #4 and the images are made from a 38 second film clip using the Sensory poem #5.
Sensory poem #8 (video and sound, 2:48)
SENSORY POEM #10
This Sensory poem explores an overlap of the physical and the virtual space and and talks about the generation of the mental spaces. The observer can be the content or the container, so, we propose a reflexion, so who is the model and what is the reality? How do we create cinematic and architectural reality? Is virtual reality present at all time as an individual interpretation of the same time and the space?
SENSORY POEM #11
This Sensory poem consists of a photo series documenting how we consciously and subconsciously measure and mimic space. Both architecture and film are furthermost experienced through our subconscious sensory experience, which is our first means of communicating with the world.
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