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Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.º 47. 

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Deadline for receipt of articles:  September 10, 2024

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The experience of architectural space-time. A phenomenological perspective of the sensorium

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Abstract

Spatial experience is a key phenomenon in a person's relationship with the world and is an essential concept for those designing living spaces. Here, the objective is to theoretically define spatial experience from conceptualizing the human being as sensorium, which is conditioned by culture and in turn contributes to its definition. The research problem is to understand the relationship between perception and spatial experience, in the corporeal dimension and orientation in the world and in the existential dimension when inhabiting. The strategy was to resort to the texts of the founding authors of the concepts: sensorium, perception and experience from the phenomenological perspective and to texts that neuroscience offers to approach an understanding of the cognitive processes of perception and episodic memory; thus, analyze and integrate them; thereby propose a model for understanding the spatial experience. In this way, three stages in the spatial experience are identified: the sensory, the perceptual and the existential; the experience was established by the interrelation between the corporeality that constitutes the sensorium and the being-being constituted by the consciousness, the cognitive processes and the culture of the subject in a space-time.

 

Keywords:

Memory, spatial experience, architectural space-time, sensorium, phenomenology of architecture

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