Shree: Movement

 

Shree: Movement

Experience of architecture is (or perhaps) by movement. Perhaps another word for architecture may as well be called as “movement”.  A movement is change and this change is external and internal as well. Body is a measure of movement in space and time but even if the body is stationary, the movement of mind also exists and which creates space and time. This movement should be “felt” internally and the meaning of space and form (as external entities) should be able to connect with the internal sense of movement. This movement should also make a past and future or the p[resent moment should be seen as overlays of or a continuum of past and future too. Change is also a movement and a container of memory and it shows two dimensions – temporariness (or a cyclic nature of events) and permanence of something that generates movement. Movement also means “scales” – individual movement, collective movement, community movement (in imagination) and transcendental realization also generated from collective values. A movement can mean a connection or can also indicate a fracture or an atomized existence. If the scale of movement becomes comprehensive or transcendental, then peace is achieved.

Perhaps the making of architecture become transcendental. That when a form is conceived or built, it touches the universal through the contextual situation. The proportion, scale, shape, size of the form comes from the One. so also the elements and principles of design come from the One. In this, light, symmetry may or may not take any cognizance of visual axis or the site.

Modernity at times lays too much emphasis on the visual (of the form) and the visual features and forces of the site. This is only the “immediate” situation to respond, as if the intangible depths are to be rubbished off?!

If we only concentrate what is immediate, then we become superfluous or trivial. The origins of a form and movement can come from far greater depth that may not be immediately inspired from the site. This also is a valid approach to design!

Hari Om.