Los espacios del sentir: el Kiasma como modelo de percepción espacial
- Autores: Shlomi Almagor
- Directores de la Tesis: Magda Saura i Carulla (dir. tes.), José Antonio Ramos Abengózar (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2016
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Restituto Bravo Remis (presid.), Pere Fuertes Pérez (secret.), Luis Angel Domínguez Moreno (voc.), Nadia Fava (voc.), Rafael Casado Martínez (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
Since the beginning of the agricultural era -almost 10,000 years ago-, and until the present time, the processes of change and innovation in almost every aspect of human life has been steadily accelerating. Ever since the early twenty-first century, more than half of humanity lives in mega-cities in an environment largely created by man. Despite the owrwhelming changes of the last few centuries, we continue with the same anatomy and many of the instincts of our ancestors ; our body continues to possess the same mechanisms that served for the survival of the hunter gatherers tens of thousands of years ago.We belong to a global and continuous system of natural phenomena. We are born into this world with the ability to detect,-through almost every centimeter of our body, minimal changes around us; we can grasp -not only through our eyes and our mind, but also through muscles,ears , nose and skin, the environment in which we live and move around. Still, it is easy to imagine that the majority of these mechanisms are eroded , silenced or suffocated by modern life.Synthetic materials, non-natural substances, artificial light and weather ,are part of our daily routine. The average resident of the big cities of the XXI century is gradually separated from his 'bodily experiences'.This detachment from the 'human experience', due to centuries-long processes, is the result of technology developments and great changes in the physical context, which have caused social and cultural changes of all kinds. Many new technological advances (and the consequent cultural changes) tend to turn us away from the reality of 'here' and 'now', and the results of these events are reflected , for example, in the loss of social skills and even in certain cognitive changes . .According to different authors cited in the thesis ,architecture can be part of the processes that push us away from natural occurrence,or it can lead to the opposite, since it holds the potential to create an environment in which our repressed mechanisms can be revived. Architecture can return us to the natural phenomena and bring us back to the 'human experience', which is significantly reduced and terribly worn in contemporary culture. The text reflects on the relations hip between the body and the built environment, its main objective is to highlight the great potential that lies in a space which is designed intentionally in order to be perceived. With the intention of not being left only within a theoretical framework, we chose to use a case study. This fact has also been essential since the main argument of the thesis is that architecture should be experienced in person. The chosen building was Stewn Holl's Kiasma Museum.According to the work hypothesis ,it is a relatively new building, made with materials and techniques of the late twentieth century and designed by an architect who is particularly attentive to the point of view of the user. The field work consisted of delivering questionnaires to some 170 visitors of the building, after completing their visit, and a subsequent study of these. Through the applied methodology,the work analyzes the perception people haw of the built environment, both through the user's perspective and from the point of view of the architect The examination of the intentions of Holl for the building; a study of the plans of the museum; the critical view of different professionals in the building, and reviewing the questionnaires distributed to users , have all given very relevant results. The conclusions of the thesis speak of the possibilities and the critical role that architects and architecture schools have in the creation of a 'correcting' and 'curing' environment versus contemporary ailments .
