Abstract

Designers express diverse opinions on how to apply sharp shapes in buildings. Sharply-changed contour of sharp shapes is one visual primitive that can be quickly extracted by people1). As a critical part of architectural design, architectural surface boasts of some characteristics that affect brain to recognize threat of sharp contours. In this day with diversified aesthetics, aesthetics rests with audience’s visual perception and cognition of objective objects, as well as their professional knowledge, life experience, thoughts and culture. In the course of evolution, general aesthetic awareness acquired by the brain is minimally impacted by subjective factors. Under the background, this study, on neuroscience view, adopts interdisciplinary approach to explain brain’s perception mechanism to threats and selective attention mechanism by applying interdisciplinary approach. Starting with analyzing five stages of aesthetic cognition, it exposes brain’s preference for characteristics in line with survival instinct, such as “transparency” and “reflection”, in accordance with viewpoint of evolutionary aesthetics. Aesthetic preference can be triggered by both materials, and permeability of architectural shape structures. In summary, this study aims to reveal reasons of threat perception and attraction of sharp shapes, so as to determine influence of surface characteristics on cognition and aesthetic effects of sharp shapes. It is hoped to provide scientific references and proposals for applying surface characteristics in buildings with sharp shapes.

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