The Phenomenon of Touch in Architectural Design and a Field Study on Haptic Mapping

dc.contributor.authorOktem Erkartal, Pinar
dc.contributor.authorOkem, Hikmet Selim
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T10:33:27Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T10:33:27Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractOcular-centrism is the utilitarian-aesthetic perspective which dominates the perception of spatial quality and architectural success in the West. In locating vision as the dominant discourse in architectural design, this perspective has been criticized for ignoring the physical and psychological relation created between subject and space during the spatial experience, sensual memory, movement and time. The phenomenon of touch, which may be defined as the interaction between architecture and subject dependent on physical and cognitive perception, offers another way of thinking and interpreting architecture, and constitutes an alternative starting point for design. The aim of this study was three-fold: to research and describe the phenomenon of touch in design concepts, to present the effects of hapticity in spatial experience on the user, and to present a visualization study for this phenomenon which is quite challenging to express. For the fieldwork, five buildings designed by Peter Zumthor were chosen. Zumthor stresses the importance of sensation, materiality and atmosphere in the architectural design process. Zumthor's abstract design elements, their use in architectural space and the effect were determined using physical measurement. The findings were represented in haptic mapping. This visualization study consisted of a haptic scatter chart, materiality-affect analysis and sensation analysis and revealed that the phenomenon of touch and concepts identified it such as sensations, influence, materiality and mental associations are not abstract and inaccessible assumptions, but tools which can be included in the architectural design process.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5505/MEGARON.2015.30602
dc.identifier.endpage111en_US
dc.identifier.issn1309-6915
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage92en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5505/MEGARON.2015.30602
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/3950
dc.identifier.volume10en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000371693200008en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.language.isotren_US
dc.publisherYildiz Technical Univ, Fac Architectureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofMegaronen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectBodyen_US
dc.subjecthapticityen_US
dc.subjectaffecten_US
dc.subjectsensesen_US
dc.subjectocular-centrismen_US
dc.subjectmappingen_US
dc.subjectarchitectural designen_US
dc.titleThe Phenomenon of Touch in Architectural Design and a Field Study on Haptic Mappingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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