Phenomenology

My understanding of phenomenology A case of walking into a space and coming to terms with your surroundings, utilizing how I feel whilst looking into, around and through certain intersections. An experience that can be related back to a specific place, coming to terms with how I actually think how Im feeling. To have a deeper understanding of the place visited, coming from within. Looking in Architecture, phenomenology occurs within everything everywhere. This because Architecture is all around us everywhere we are. There is always an experience, consciously and unconsciously if you know or not. An experience is directed toward an object by virtue of its content or meaning (which represents the object) together with appropriate enabling conditions. This here gives me value to question that the experience is focused and directed for its content and meaning. You would have an experience with a structure (building) displaying that the content and meaning are the appropriate enabling conditions. I feel this means to me that when an experience occurs we focus on the deeper understanding of the actual purpose. Bibliography - Phenomenology First published Sun Nov 16, 2003; substantive revision Mon Jul 28, 2008 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/ Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy

Malt Cross Pub (Edwin Hill, 1877, Victorian music hall) This pub for me was Dark and dingy on the lower floor, the sunlight throughout the day projects through the building from the roof. Lampshades light up the pub at night causing a calm settling effect. There is a balcony providing views to the lower layer and to view the whole pub, getting a chance to view different aspects and pieces of furniture you cant from other areas. Raised platform at the front half way up from floor to balcony subjecting a theater feel, which took place previously before the pub. Once entered the room has an open plan layout, which welcomes you in to the surroundings giving a direct line to the bar and to see any spare seating. The overall grasp I got from the Malt Cross pub was that it was different, usual yet

welcoming to see the surroundings. Comfy and you can settle into the environment quickly.

Park Tunnel Bridge (Entrance to park estate, architect

Peter Frederick Robinson, 1827)

Huge revealing, welcoming views and scenes, whilst walking through and out this tunnel. This was highly unexpected to be at this location, almost didnt spot the ditch down to the tunnel. Structurally impressive to have been created, this because how big this is, creating a huge sensation whilst walking through focusing on the sunlight at the other side. Somehow I felt like this structure was greeting/ welcoming you within what it has to offer, forcefully feeding you comfort and making you question what was once here? The Park Tunnel Bridge felt religious to walk through, this because it was the size it was, giving off such background and previous occurrences.

Hand & Heart Pub (built into sandstone caves, 1866 as a brewery, This was unalike the Malt Cross Pub, this because the there was no balcony but the addition on the 2nd floor was creative.

Different cultural clash Upstairs rooms had diverse scenery

The culture within the ground floor and 1st floor was dissimilar because upstairs the rooms had a homely feel. They were different to one another creating a diverse effect; this threw me of a little walking into each environment. The rooms were: Settled down/ relaxing lounge Garden smoking area Pub area (eating & drinking)

Ground floor was welcoming but not as open as the Malt Cross, few walk ways round to the bar and round the side to upstairs. Interesting pub to visit, providing diverse cultures within. Recreation of a modern structure fitting in with an old assemble

Three different rooms upstairs

Text: PLACE What, then, do we mean with the word place? Obviously we mean something more than abstract location. We mean a totality made up of concrete things having material substance, shape, texture and color. Together these things determine an environmental character. (Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Place, from Genius Loci: towards a phenomenology of Architecture, London, Academy Editions, 1920, p.6) This for me means that place is lost without having a material substance, shape, texture and color. I believe heavily in empirical evidence, having concrete experience that a place is there, therefore this analogy fits in with my acceptance to what place would have. Place would be situated in, around and wherever you are standing, this could be miniature, small or large, it is always present in my eyes. This would determine that is has an environmental character, where place is always positioned/ located with an environmental character.