Perception Of Architectural Output: The Presence Of Architecture In The Presence Of a Pandemic

Abstract

The importance of the fourth dimension in architecture is based on its use to determine the effectiveness and structure of four-dimensional space through perception; how people livesin architecture and move within spaces is affected by the ways their senses become accustomed to what they see and perceive. New intellectual responses are generated by both new formations and circumstances, generating the research problem focused on the role of architecture with respect to recognising the current pandemic and its effects on architectural production. The research goal was thus to achieve a new perception of architecture by adding the fourth dimension of time as one of the component dimensions within the system of change that architecture must develop in response to the pandemic; this can be achieved by creating broader horizons within classic theories in an attempt to formularise architectural products that adopt the fourth dimension to address issues arising from the pandemic. The research method included inductive, analytical, and interpretive approaches, examining various theories and concepts to arrive at a set of values, and the results were a set of mental concepts that describe an architectural perception of the pandemic, based on interaction, which provide a knowledge base for developing awareness of the pandemic through architecture.