“New Experiences Of The Body Through Space”

“Architecture is increasingly used as a tool to help people experience space as an open and variable dimension. Architecture is no longer considered as an object, but as a cognitive field, as an extension of our capacity to perceive. Actually, there are no borders anymore between interior and exterior, there are no fixed partitions. Architecture opens to the outside…

Stable identities as well as fixed space are no longer possible, because they do not correspond to the reality of today’s world. ..

Hybrid space proposes an approach to architecture that creates new cultural codes and disruptions within the physical and electronic networks that connect our international and local cultures.” (Mahdalickova 2009)

“The interactive architecture transforms how people inhabit space. What happens when space reacts to the body, when it is formed by means of the physical rhythm? People tend to react to mobile environment in a different way than they react to static environments. Their involvement with a building becomes an interaction more than a simple reaction. The deformed space forces the individuals to react. Architecture no more imposes an identity, it creates a change. Within the innovative and interactive architecture, we create ourselves by crossing spaces which change as they react to our bodies. Consequently, space and body are closely intertwined since space reacts to the body and the body to space….

Architecture can be a tool to intensify our senses and sharpen our consciousness of the reality which tends to be erased under the influence of the speed and of the surfeit of information. Architecture can help us to find our physical body….

The architecture establishes the place and in doing so, the rhythm of the space. It is to open the existence to the universal rhythm, to harmonize it with the physical rhythm and to create a new type of subjectivity, more connected with the fluid and changeable nature. In nature there is no negation, no opposition of opposites, there is a harmony.” (Mahdalickova 2009)

Eva Mahdalickova ( 2009): New Experiences Of The Body Through Space 
link: http://www.implications-philosophiques.org/Habitat/MAHDALICKOVA1.html