Investigation of Senses & Emotion Notions in Phenomenology of Built Spaces

Question of quantity and quality of built spaces and meanings and implications inherent them, have always at the forefront of architectural researches. Meanwhile, “approach to cognition” of the phenomenon of built space as well as “means of cognition” is the difference of researches and it is in question. One of the epistemology on recognition of objects which introduced in 20th century and embraced all fields related to human life was phenomenology. Phenomenology is as a methodology and toolkit which makes possible to achieve recognition of “human being” in a concert way as human feels and perceives it. Since phenomenological method is based on lived experience of people, “senses and emotions” have a main role in this process. In this study, on the philosophical foundations of interpretative and qualitative study and by design discourse analysis approach, we have tried to find the answers of research questions. The results of the discussion show that the presence of human sensory perception in built spaces and total involvement with the space and the elements of creating meaning (as the sense data), provides the context of creation of individual and collective memories for people, as well as recalling spatiality of experienced spaces in future and collective consciousness of that quality. Deeper quality of those spaces engaged imagination of humans more and conquers them through their imagination. The fantasy and imagination of experience of evocative spaces, strengthens feeling of being in the place, welfare, comfortableness and identity and therefore, architecture gives us identity and it is the most important task of it.