Architectural Silence
Song, Sung-Bok (2016)
2016
Master's Degree Programme in Architecture
Talouden ja rakentamisen tiedekunta - Faculty of Business and Built Environment
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2016-06-08
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201605113964
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-201605113964
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Principles of the industrialized architecture design were first formulated by Le Corbusier in “Towards a New Architecture” (1923). The influence of his vision has globally dominated architectural design both in the West and the East. In this study I focus on the phenomena—the homogenized and commercialized style of contemporary built environment affected by Le Corbusier—seen both in Finland and South Korea.
There are several issues based on the phenomena. Firstly, it reveals the connection between Descartes’ dualism and Le Corbusier’s influence all over the world. Secondly, the trend of form in architectural design has lost lived experience with the built environment. Finally, by losing the ontological relation between human being and architecture, the replicated architecture has led us to feel homelessness and placelessness as the problem of the modern man, because the commercialized architecture has a lot of noise to get people’s attention instead of making them experience existential meaning.
In this research, I argue that architectural silence triggers people to be aware of this modern problem and to reconcile the relationship between architecture and human beings. This is because, firstly, the awareness of engagement on the beings and the architecture is introduced as the meaning of bodily experience with architecture. Secondly, the relationship supports people to feel the sense of Being-in-the-World, a phenomenological solution to the modern man. Thirdly, the engagement and ontological relation is revealed in a certain atmosphere: architectural silence. Therefore, I will study what is the meaning of architectural silence and how the silence and architecture are connected with experience to recall the being’s existential meaning by conducting phenomenological interpretation.
This study is separated into five parts: ‘Crisis of contemporary built environment’, ‘Critical reading of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology’, ‘Phenomenological method’, ‘Phenomenology of St. Henry's Ecumenical Art Chapel’ (Sanaksenaho Arkkitehdit Oy, 2005), and Conclusion.
In the first and second part, I will first argue how Cartesian Dualism and Le Corbusier have affected the built environment in the 21st Century, and then the main idea of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy will be studied to criticize the dualism and to make a bridge between phenomenology and architectural language. The third part introduces phenomenological method, which is called “Step by Step” method, as an interdisciplinary research between ontology and architecture. In fourth and fifth part, the phenomenological interpretation is applied to the St. Henry's Ecumenical Art Chapel.
In conclusion, the phenomenological interpretation of the chapel shows as below:
Firstly, architecture, as a material form of body and experience unity, bases on architectural silence which leads people to recall the existential meaning of architectural experience with their memory. Moreover, the architectural silence stimulates people to encounter the empathetic connection between the being itself and architecture. Finally, architectural silence encourages people to have their own life story with architectural body-experience in the architecture.
There are several issues based on the phenomena. Firstly, it reveals the connection between Descartes’ dualism and Le Corbusier’s influence all over the world. Secondly, the trend of form in architectural design has lost lived experience with the built environment. Finally, by losing the ontological relation between human being and architecture, the replicated architecture has led us to feel homelessness and placelessness as the problem of the modern man, because the commercialized architecture has a lot of noise to get people’s attention instead of making them experience existential meaning.
In this research, I argue that architectural silence triggers people to be aware of this modern problem and to reconcile the relationship between architecture and human beings. This is because, firstly, the awareness of engagement on the beings and the architecture is introduced as the meaning of bodily experience with architecture. Secondly, the relationship supports people to feel the sense of Being-in-the-World, a phenomenological solution to the modern man. Thirdly, the engagement and ontological relation is revealed in a certain atmosphere: architectural silence. Therefore, I will study what is the meaning of architectural silence and how the silence and architecture are connected with experience to recall the being’s existential meaning by conducting phenomenological interpretation.
This study is separated into five parts: ‘Crisis of contemporary built environment’, ‘Critical reading of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology’, ‘Phenomenological method’, ‘Phenomenology of St. Henry's Ecumenical Art Chapel’ (Sanaksenaho Arkkitehdit Oy, 2005), and Conclusion.
In the first and second part, I will first argue how Cartesian Dualism and Le Corbusier have affected the built environment in the 21st Century, and then the main idea of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy will be studied to criticize the dualism and to make a bridge between phenomenology and architectural language. The third part introduces phenomenological method, which is called “Step by Step” method, as an interdisciplinary research between ontology and architecture. In fourth and fifth part, the phenomenological interpretation is applied to the St. Henry's Ecumenical Art Chapel.
In conclusion, the phenomenological interpretation of the chapel shows as below:
Firstly, architecture, as a material form of body and experience unity, bases on architectural silence which leads people to recall the existential meaning of architectural experience with their memory. Moreover, the architectural silence stimulates people to encounter the empathetic connection between the being itself and architecture. Finally, architectural silence encourages people to have their own life story with architectural body-experience in the architecture.