Sight: The Most Influential Sense

2. VISION

Sight is often referred as the most important & influential sense. Our understanding for anything is through vision; we see it and absorb it for our understanding. The Aristotelian idea of contemplative happiness, theoria, takes its name from therein— which is, to see, to observe . The eye collaborates with all the other senses; it is the first reflex towards perceiving a thing. What the eye sees, the other senses confirm and hence we understand the environment around in a better manner. When you enter a garden, you see and are aware of what it is. But you then smell the flowers, you hear the trees in the wind, and you become fully assured of where you are. It helps us in attain comfort with the surroundings. As it confirms the other

“A view at a building will not show the person watching the building but a building will return the sound of a person walking in it and listening to the sound. The sense of hearing provides a three-dimensional atmosphere.” However, the use of sound, or the lack thereof, can be used to create certain atmospheres. In such buildings, the silence interacts with our perception, and in these moments, we are able to imagine. It isn’t necessary always that the sound has to be loud sometimes having silence also helps you to interact with the environment and give you space for perceiving the version of your understanding for the particular

Unfamiliar sounds and odors could be disturbing, or, they could potentially be exciting, however familiar sounds tend to be more reassuring. The third is a “response to stimulus as it becomes identified in ones memory with a particular place and time.” This is a remembered sensation, is familiar, and can still invoke other sensations so that the mind can reconstruct the dimensions of other particular places . (FIG-4) How our brain perceives

The ease with which we use our senses (like the simple act of opening our eyes, or touching by simply pressing our skin against an object) hides the fact the perception is an important aspect of the sensory process. Perception calls on past memories and emotions in order to process and understand our current experiences. Therefore, to fully understand a space, it requires not only sensation, but your perception as well.

A sensory experience is important to understanding the nature of an architectural space. It allows you to not only take in sensory data, but to interpret it, bringing in past experiences and memories, allowing you to make your own conclusions on a space. Every person has its own meaning to a place that variation in the experiences comes through the perception of our senses. Also the meaning a particular space may hold for an individual also casts a different memory from person to