Bunker auscultation: A classification system for a proto-method of sensory space composition. (10th October 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: EMMETT, MATHEW
• Is Part Of: Design ecologies. Volume 1:Number 2(2011)
• Page Start: 287
• Page End: 303
• Publication Date: 2011-10-10
• Subjects: Design -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Sustainable architecture -- Periodicals; Sustainable design -- Periodicals; 720.47
• DOI: 10.1386/des.1.2.287_7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-0698

Abstract

A subterranean WWII bunker, hidden under the City of Plymouth, is used as the context for the investigation. The enquiry considers the bunker as psychoactive in nature, that is, stimulating a range of psychological, emotional and behavioural responses in relationship to the percipient's spatial register. The project focuses on developing a classification system, and examines space as a conveying medium. The project acts as a scheme for establishing a critical methodology of sensory space and develops an interdisciplinary architectural language for thinking about architecture as phenomenological constructions, whilst implying a greater understanding of the roles of mnemonic structures.