Phenomenology

This whole entry is about how phenomenology relates to my own studio work. Phenomenology is the study of your consciousness, how things appear by considering other ways of thought besides logic and scientific. This is the definition of phenomenology in philosophy.  Phenomenology in architecture is based upon the one’s experience of building form. It is a study of how you perceive the space and the environment around it.  

My studio project is to create the sculpture pavilion that contains eight Thai sculptures, which we get to have a site at Parc Paragon. The whole pavilion is ephemeral which its duration of exhibiting is three months. So started up with making a survey on how people think of Thai sculptures. It turns out to be that people think of it as something very archaic and traditional.  However, those sculptures that will be exhibiting are not traditional at all.  So it can conclude that people has visions in Thai sculpture. They have expectation of how Thai sculpture looks like. Nevertheless, their expectation isn’t always what things are.

So I decided to design a pavilion under the concept of unexpected. I design the façade of my pavilion to be as banal as possible. It is simply a black cube. However, when people get inside my building, they will see the white fluid form in paper waffle structure. People would feel that it is very unexpected. It is the sublime that people would experience by the unexpected of the form. It is also and unexpected by the structure and materials as well. Natural lighting comes from the ceiling that is full of squares as you look up above because on the top of the waffle structure, the roof that would protect the paper waffle structure from weather is made out of poly carbonate which allows natural light to come into the space but not too much. I also play with the idea of expectation in size. Inside my pavilion there are many thresholds that seeing from the outside they look all they same. However, the inside that there are different sizes in volume that you can’t guess or see it from out side. These are phenomena of my pavilion.