Spatial Experience

If one tries to decode everything  - decoding manifestation itself, then one realizes the void.

For architecture, the central question is : what makes or creates a spatial experience? How does one define ‘space’ and what does one mean to give a spatial experience? 

This is related with similar question about art: how does music become ‘pleasing’ or a painting become ‘inspiring’ or a theatre play become ‘tragic’? 

In all above examples, we are talking of an “experience” (mood/ feeling) and this experience can be generated by a method of art or architecture. 

Our mind is filled with pure space (beyond context) and from where certain thoughts get created (tendencies). The creation and change in these thoughts is inherent in us. These tendencies prevalent in our thoughts/ mind can be subtly controlled, highlighted, managed, encouraged by altering spatial attributes ( plane, texture, shape, proportion, arrangement, scale, colour, smell, sound, wind, light, temperature). For me – these are the ingredients of creating spatial experience. By choosing certain combination of above ingredients, a particular mood/ feeling/ experience in the mind is created through space. Thus, perhaps space is meant to create mood. How does one define and ascertain a particular spatial arrangement results in a particular mood?  This is by practice and wisdom. 

Above observation is fundamental. It means that the neutral space of expanse (consider coming out of earth) creates a neutral tendency in us – it is literally unbounded – we do not feel blue sky (light) or the wind or smell or taste or touch – nothing at all. However, the moment we land on earth and start to sense the movement of sun (light) with the wind, temperature, see certain forms (mountains, trees, foliage, river or manmade planes), colours, hear sound (acoustics) – we start to react to the environment – certain thoughts get generated because of such space. Therefore, having known this relationship, it becomes important for the architect, to create a proper mood. This becomes the highest role of architecture  - the giver of experience.