Cognitive Landscape: Understanding the Inhabited Environment

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Cognitive Landscape: Understanding the Inhabited Environment

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2017

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title: Cognitive Landscape: Understanding the Inhabited Environment

creator: Daniel Pierce Belcourt

subject: Landscape architecture; Building sites; Space (Architecture); Architecture, Psychological aspects

description: The world around us presents a palate from which design can flourish. Landscape, specifically, offers translation of itself through built form, spatial progression, and material layering. The horizontal extension of earth, of which encapsulates the idea of landscape, physically reaches towards an increased interaction between human and site. Architecture and space can therefore realize this relationship. Subsequently, the elements (light, views, materials, geometry) that can be exploited, conditioned, and reintroduced through articulated space further emphasize this new understanding. Site and architecture have overlapping ideas that inform and influence each other and exponentially reveal new experiences and methods of perception. The aforementioned qualities and elements of site (materials, light, views, and geometry) can define the user’s experience of space and place, and help solidify the relationship between the natural and synthetic. The abstraction of a material’s organic function into an architectural function is the key method by which cognitive landscape can develop. Furthermore, spatial progression becomes an additional method in which human comprehension of site is fully extracted; the experiences found on this specific trail directly influence the experiences found inside a structure. In coexistence with the notion of layers, spatial opacity seeks to blur and reveal aspects individually. With this dialogue between land and built form, the user and its inhabited environment can be further integrated.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

date: 2017

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

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