Phenomenology: It's sublime.

Phenomenology in architecture is the concept that would gives us effect of extreme feelings when we encountered certain space.  ‘Sublime’, one of the examples of feelings that you can get from phenomenology, is the feeling like you are on the verge of death and then back again.  Several architectures can stimulate this feeling, like Etienne-Louis Boullée’s cenotaph for sir Isaac Newton.  He made the entrance a small straight path, then, suddenly; you entered a big spherical room so big that it is like the universe itself.  The shock of abrupt, huge change in space can cause you to stun in awe.  Sublime.

This concept could be integrated into our studio design works as well.  As I said earlier that most of the time people experience architecture in the state of distraction, but if we manage to stun them, turn they attention to the space we design, we could bring people to appreciate architecture more.  In studio design this semester, we are to make an exhibition pavilion to house 10 sculptures by Thai artists.  These arts are very interesting and beautiful, yet not many get to see them since they were kept in faraway and quite secretly placed museum.  I decided to make a pavilion kind of plain on the exterior, but when entered, visitors would see a lot of spinning mechanics and moving colored glasses, which would stimulate a bizarre experience and, I hope, give them an unexpected feeling.

Maybe the pavilion would give an interesting lighting?