Shree: Feelings and architecture

 

Shree: Feelings and architecture

It is a mistake to think that “compartments” maybe able to offer peace or stability. To think in this manner is itself a conditional statement and that generates problems. Peace and stability exist irrespective of any compartments or actions. What I do in idle time affects my doing in action and vice versa. In existence, there is no such thing as idle time or a vacuum time or a non vibrational time – everything is One medium that affects all other constructed separated things.

This has repercussions on built environment or architecture. A continuous and a gradual mixing of everything as one medium means architecture would be porous, transitional, landscaped, multipurpose or common spaces would be in plenty, collaborative, empathetic and so on. Architecture would stem from the fundamental urge to create a “pattern” of existence that means connection with all. All design briefs, programs, client’s requirements, perception of site, concept, expression and construction will gravitate towards this fundamental feeling of Oneness.

What we see in modern space and times is the opposite of this trend. Consider effects of automobiles, highways, deserted roads, deserted spaces, isolated buildings, compartmentalized rooms, engagement with mobiles, multitasking, warp speeds of production cycles and preoccupation with the self, high rise towers, large distances, emphasize on surveillance and control – what kind of existential feeling does this kind of environment generate? I would put it as isolation or loneliness and that is just too bad for humanity.

Hence concerns are deeper than visual productions and how things look. The inquiry is – “what are feelings, what is our relationship to them and what are favorable responses”?

Hari Om.