Tranquillizing the Senses - An Ingenious Trend in Architecture

Space is not just a space. In fact, it is more than an appearance it gradually interconnected with the people experience. It can build correlation between the people and drive the environment into something extensive. This is where sensory architecture exists in, it lifts the occupant‘s living experience through optimistic psychological and behavioral aspects. It deals with the structure and refining our body in different ways which integrates the five senses to provide soothing and healing experiences to users.

“I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture”, - Bernard Rudofsky

 Sensory architecture focuses on stimulating the human senses in significant and deliberated way. Senses can highly influence the emotions and wellness. Hence the sensory architecture tends to cater the senses by designing solutions to have a momentous effect on occupant’s experience. On account of understanding this, sensory architecture transfigure the spaces which are not only visually appealing, it also creates  nurturing environment and enables to enhance engagement with other senses such as sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.

Factors that are Amplifying Sensory Architecture's Uniqueness:

• Letting the Room to Sing: Reducing the outer noise by using sound absorbing acoustic materials and creating a pleasant atmosphere is the primary goal here. Different sounds can stimulate different emotions. With the advent of innovation and creativity, sensory designs bring music from architecture.
• Triggering the Emotions with Fragrance: We all know smell is the most powerful sense which can have crucial impact on frame of mind and deportment. On that basis sensory architecture incorporates to bring emotional relaxations for occupant using natural scents.
• Enables to Touch & Feel: The atmosphere of the space differs in all forms such as temperature, warmth, moisture, aeration, and so on. Sensory architecture approaches this factor with their designing solutions to engage the interaction of the user with touch.Using interactive devices and ductile materials, the designs created comprises to enhance the interactions between body and ambience.
• Enchanting the in Sight: The power of the architecture is creating a visually appealing framework. Our body is enormously connected with biorhythm and it depends on lighting structure of the room.The colors also influence the occupant mood and emotions. So for this note, sensory architecture deliberately executing the lighting designs and choosing colors to ameliorate the liveliness of the user.
• Tasting the Art: It might be hard to see taste in architecture, but sensory designs allows you to feel the taste by using specific materials through designs, For example, usage of marble stimulates the feel of taste in homes.