Phenomenology method of making a place

Duc Tran,A Mottaeva,B Melović

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201819304021

Abstract

The paper shows the concept of phenomenology originated from Edmund Husserl’s contemplation of “I think, therefore I am.” As the scientific method of consciousness, phenomenology relates to architecture via the phenomenological-self. The method concentrated on investigation and description, without prejudices. Living in the world, the phenomenological-self can be a being man, a perpetual man, a wandering man, or a sensory man. Places appear because these egos have projected them to in-between the Earth and Heaven. The selves rendered their dwelling by reflection, imagination, apperception, or sensation of the built environment. The site historicity impacted on making architecture as humans’ embodiment. The influence can be either site conformation or humans force as traditional culture. Both are the primary objects of the phenomenology method that is taken shape in four steps, from Husserl’s five phases for pure knowledge. Applying those paces in making a place, designer and students keep off their prejudices to produce a pure phenomenological architecture meaningful and articulatory to its surrounding.

Highlights

Humans have engaged nature as an ideal paradigm of form and function since the beginning of time to express their physical and mental
Studies showed spirit of a place can be defined by means of phenomenology method that was originated from Edmund Husserl’s philosophy of human experience
In the Lecture II, on The Idea of phenomenology, Husserl started phenomenology by “how can the critique of knowledge establish itself?” (Edmund Husserl, “Lecture II,” 23), and proposed no starting point for human beings’ cognition, but predetermined (Ibid.), which relates to judge and bias. He suggested phenomenology method released our thinking from prejudiced deductions, to attain objective and genuine knowledge or things essence, when we “perceive, imagine, judge, and infer” (Ibid)

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Humans have engaged nature as an ideal paradigm of form and function since the beginning of time to express their physical and mental. Architecture as humans’ embodiment may be seen to constitute an organic relationship with nature in any climatic, cultural, and social condition. Some modern design movements have emerged, such as of biomorphic form and bio-mimicry. These movements often fail to the totality and depth of their relationship to the natural, because their ways missed the essence and the connection of a dwelling in a place, or called genius loci. Studies showed spirit of a place can be defined by means of phenomenology method that was originated from Edmund Husserl’s philosophy of human experience. The method has a connection with architectural process because of man’s design position as a being-Iin “critique of knowledge” Lee Hardy (Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,2010,3.) to obtain the status of ‘pure consciousness’ (Ibid.,8) for achievement of the soul of place

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