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Mechanics of memory and nine houses through sensorium, atmospheres and type

Urban Sensoriums
Pratik Bharati, 2022


Memories possess strong imaginational potential. They can make you travel through time and leave a mark on you through a series of events in time. Memories can be used to manifest a space through associations, sensorial experiences and material properties. For the scope of the thesis, I've considered sensorial memories as events which come together and construct spaces from the past. These non oculocentric memories become a threshold for spatial thinking for this thesis. I will explore and  investigate my memories of nine houses that I have lived in till  now and dissect their qualitative aspects. These sensory memories of touch, smell, taste and vision become a memory map of information to produce spaces. The analytical study of these houses from my memories tries to recollect all the sensorial aspects of the spaces to reconstruct an atmosphere or a setting from the past.

The method of research involves detailed anecdotes of specific events (or non events / instances) from the nine houses and will study these experiences through an analytical framework of sensorial, atmospheric and typological studies. The study proposes a process of atmospheric drawings and detailed writings from the memories of these nine houses. This atmospheric thinking allows one to look at the qualitative aspects of spaces. Further typological studies help to decode behavioural logics that the spatial configurations produce. This thesis proposes an alternative way to consider design processes through mobilising memory by way of sensorial writing, atmospheric drawing and typological studies.




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