In the technological age, when we have so many social experiences that are virtual, the role of architecture in the experience of real-time situations is becoming more and more curious. How does architecture affect our emotions, and what design interventions can be taken to help us through the chaos of daily life?
In the recent case of the North Glasgow Office of Research and Design (NORD) in Scotland, I think architecture often forgets that one of its main goals is to stimulate emotion.
A new hospice hospital and Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre, which are part of a network of medical centres established in the UK to help anyone affected by cancer. Although these buildings are of serious importance due to the conditions of the people who come to live, we realize that it is necessary to weigh these serious problems and importance between the social, spiritual and emotional needs of the patient and the social, spiritual and emotional needs of the patient Nursing provides our design ideas.
In both projects, a small library space became a familiar anchor point, rooting the experience of the building in a quiet place for thinking.
Quiet space architecture
Enclose the Wi-Fi area, power outlets and screens in a cluster, and conduct so many social activities online. The “quiet zone”, such as the electrical and human noise on the train from Glasgow to London, is kept at a low level, is a clear sign that technical attacks on our senses and the public domain are under scrutiny.
On the nearest Melbourne train, when the train entered the tunnel, when the phone or tablet signal was lost, everyone in the train car was simultaneously looking up in frustration. Their eyes are fixed on the miniature screen of the journey, and only the large concrete structure can make them return to the reality of the social environment of the carriage.
Wi-Fi and online networks will remain, but the future may herald the rise of quiet spaces or library architecture-as many people say, these facilities are being threatened by online archiving and information searching.
The library is a serious space; usually older people have an aura of dignity and restraint. Historically, the idea is clear: the library will become part of the civic infrastructure of a place and the community it serves.
Recently in Berlin, I experienced the new Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Zentrum by Swiss architect Max Dudler, which is the new central library of Humboldt University. The atmosphere of the lobby is the same as the large reading room of the French architect Henri Labrouste in the Sainte-Geneviève library in Paris, with a similar spirit. This is also similar to entering the lobby of the State Library of Victoria.
These spaces make you feel like a child discovering things for the first time.
Libraries are all about atmosphere, which is difficult to understand in our contemporary urban experience. These spaces seem to be opposed to the outside world. The sound is always amplified in the library space, and we can have a higher evaluation of the quality of light, materials, smell of books, temperature, furniture and people around us.
When many other libraries merge or deform with each other, the library survives as a special space. Hybrid space is a flexible and adaptable space where many different media are integrated. The use of this hybrid space has been extended to the ever-changing needs of time-scarce citizens in the 21st century.
Living in a homogeneous environment
Railway stations have become shopping centers, shopping centers have become city squares, churches have become bars and nurseries, schools have become community centers, houses have become offices, and universities have become network sharing centers.
Aesthetics has been stretched to encapsulate so many uses that we now live in a homogenous environment, and it is difficult to distinguish the purpose of a building from that of neighbors.
In fact, we can hardly see most of the surrounding architecture because it becomes a kind of background buzz, which is only noticed when it is abnormally large, ugly, or beautiful.
I think that architecture should still strive to move us so that we have a special feeling. Just like music, architecture has the ability to affect emotions, but many prospects on our streets lack emotional sensitivity.
The migration of processes and architectures has succumbed to cost-effective, risk-averse, fast and universal solutions. Experiment is the freedom of exploration and adventure, and it is the condition that people in modern society must struggle for.
However, the Maggie Cancer Care Center established in Edinburgh in 1996, as an opposition to these large institutions, showed some alternatives. There is now evidence that mixed-architectural spaces exist as a kind of interface between cities, large hospitals and people.
Such a hybrid can bridge the gap between pure functionality and symbolism and give the institution a system of civic meaning. -Charles Jenks.
Future architecture
The significance of the Maggie Center is not only in its moderate size and origin. Complementing the large hospitals and the huge National Health Service, they present a passion, adventurous, aesthetic and spiritual face: due to their commitment to other arts including landscape, they bring a full picture of constructive means. mood.
Maggie’s center will soon become a model of standard building typology-discussions about opening a center in Melbourne are already underway.
We know that architecture can create emotion and change the way we experience space. Now, we need to continue talking about the various emotions we want to create.
