CORE STUDIO I : PROJECTION // Lecturer: Fleur Palmer, Rafik Patel, Emily O'Hara
First Year | Semester One | Spatial Design | Auckland University of Technology
Psychological space is at the core of spatial experience. It is intertwined with the subjective impressions of actual spatial geometry and born in the imagination…If consider the interior as the harbour of the soul, then light, colors, textures and spatial relationships take on an absolute and urgent importance. The interior, a “psychic vessel of containment,” can possess both the clarity and the vagueness required for reflection, fantasy, and passion (Holl, 1991,12).
This design paper calls for students to explore Psychological Space. The site for Projections will be the Wynyard Quarter ‘Tank Farm’, on the Auckland Waterfront, a place that has been forecasted for major developments. Students are to explore the spaces of and around the site: its enclosures, thresholds, peripheries, edges and soul, in order to help define an experience of the site. Psychology can be defined as the ‘study of the soul.’ Derived from Latin and Greek, ‘psyche’ (psukhé) translates to breath, spirit, or soul; ‘logia’ translates to the “study of” or “research”.
The wall did well for man. In its thickness and its strength, it protected man against destruction. But soon, the will to look out made man make a hole in the wall, and the wall was pained, and said, “What are you doing to me? I protect you; I made you feel secure – and now you put a hole through me!” And man said, “But I see wonderful things, and I want to look out.” And the wall felt very sad. Later man didn’t just hack a hole through the wall, but made a discerning opening, one trimmed with fine stone, and he put a lintel over the opening. And soon the wall felt pretty well (Lobell, 2000, 42).
Solitude Model WIP
Solitude Model WIP
Final Projection Project: Solitude
