Abstract
Analysing building styles and guiding architectural design with architectural phenomenology is essential for spatial design. Architectural phenomenology and especially shaping the genius loci facilitates emotional expression in design. This creates a building-human connection and a meaningful spatial social culture. It also provides a sense of direction and identity. However, architectural phenomenology is abstract and perceptual, helping designers create architecture through qualitative analysis. This complicates practical guidance during their creative process: it lacks a quantitative explanation of its practical design applications. This research focuses on the genius loci (a sense of direction and identity) in architectural phenomenology. It also explores how quantitative analysis creates a museum's genius loci. Associating architectural legibility and narrative with the genius loci to enhance spatial readability and ensure richer description is the best way to accomplish this goal. A space syntax-based visibility graph analysis then determines how to create a legible space with a rich narrative for museum visitors. This is a quantitative method creating a museum's genius loci and provides architects with a standardized design method for creating a building's social culture. Finally, the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders explains how spatial visibility creates and affects the genius loci.
Highlights
Contemporary buildings constructed in a standardised way and through mass production tend to have a rigid architectural style and usually lack personality
Seamon[9] argues that there are three reasons that architectural phenomenology can be combined with spatial syntax theory: 1) Hillier and his colleagues demonstrate that the spatial qualities of the built environment play a significant role in street life; 2) Space syntax is a quantitative method for explaining why the relationship between physical and human worlds makes such a difference and why particular city streets and street networks are more or less active; 3) Hillier identifies the type of street network that supports a lively public life
How to provide visitors with a spiritual education that gives visitors a sense of identity and enjoyment is the key point that museum designers need to think about in their design process
Summary
Contemporary buildings constructed in a standardised way and through mass production tend to have a rigid architectural style and usually lack personality. It is possible to combine spatial syntax with the phenomenology of architecture and place This is an effective way to find the quantitative applications of phenomenology during the process of design. Seamon[9] argues that there are three reasons that architectural phenomenology can be combined with spatial syntax theory: 1) Hillier and his colleagues demonstrate that the spatial qualities of the built environment play a significant role in street life; 2) Space syntax is a quantitative method for explaining why the relationship between physical and human worlds makes such a difference and why particular city streets and street networks are more or less active; 3) Hillier identifies the type of street network that supports a lively public life. There is almost no research explore a quantitative analysis on application of architectural phenomenology using spatial syntax, especially regarding the concept of place and genius loci in architectural phenomenology. This research rationally interprets the perceptual theory of architectural phenomenology to provide a quantitative analysis method for how to create genius loci in design. The idea of creating museums’ genius loci quantitatively can become a design standard for designer create more comfortable and lively museum for visitors in design process
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