Materials can be used to create multi-sensory environments, with the ability to also engage and focus on a particular sense. Designers of all kinds, from artists to architects, can take advantage of this to maximise the effect of a space or a piece. Scientific evidence supports that our senses are not isolated and that there is an existing complex cross over. For example, when we experience a space, we can understand how something feels with our sight and appreciate what something looks like with our skin. Choice of materials can enlighten our “subjective nature of spatial experience”, forming our own personal experience of a space depending on our historical, sociological, physiological and neurological memories.[2]
When it comes to sight, light is the main defining factor. As well as being able to act as a material its self, by creating form and boundaries, using natural or manipulated light allows us to perceive a materials true or abstracted features; such as it’s texture and colour.
Hegel claimed that our sense of touch is our only sense that gives a sensation of spatial depth as it considers a material body’s “…weight, resistance, and three dimensional shape…”.
Often, a smell or a subconscious taste acts as memorable factor of a space, which we then therefore associate with the overall spatial experience. Both texture and colour can evoke these senses.
“Interiors are like large instruments, collecting sound, amplifying it, transmitting it elsewhere”. Due to this statement, our hearing must be considered when determining suitable materials. Acoustic separation is vital in order to correctly meet a spaces needs, as it can manipulate what we do and don’t hear within a compact or large space, using materials such as acoustic panels.
SENSORY RESPONSES- GRAND MOSQUE ABU DHABI
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