11th EAEA Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication Conference in 2013

Track 2 | Experiential Simulation | The sensory perception of the built environment

Designing and assessing the living experience from brief to use

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to analyze the living experience at several stages of the space’s lifecycle. It will first highlight the connection between space and life and the embedded bond between architecture, mind and body. It will then focus on outlooks and respective authors that acknowledge that correlation and refer to different perspectives and interpretations of the living experience, first from related study fields and their impact on architecture, and subsequently by introducing specific study fields that share these concerns within architectural research.
Then, it will point out projects that actually conceive space by valuing the living experience from the initial concept, to the final building stage and then to its effective occupancy.
Finally, it will refer to the broad range of methods, perspectives and outcomes of assessing the living experience during the actual spatial usage, according to the different definitions of experience presented earlier, the way they are interpreted by both academia and practitioners, and the way space is expected to, and effectively does, actively engage its occupants, by presenting a specific case study of experiencing life within a particular school space.

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AUTHOR

Carolina Coelho

Centre for Social Studies/ Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Carolina Coelho is an architect graduated in 2008, from the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra. Author of the graduate thesis: ?The matter of the architect: the Portuguese society and the architect, today?, that already discussed the role of the architect and its interconnection to society. Currently she is a PhD student at the Department of Architecture and Centre for Social Studies, at the University of Coimbra, investigating ?Life within architecture?, participatory design processes and user research studies, applied to schools buildings today. Recently she has been presenting her current results in international conferences and publications.

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