#hapticity

[russellmoreton]

(via Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time)

[hyperenaissancearchitecture]

// Hapticity and the evocation of the detail //

Carlo Scarpa, detail components of the Tomba Brion. 

(image from the book “Carlo Scarpa” by Francesco Dal Co and Giuseppe Mazzariol)

[ayraethazide]

Bridging ligands and haptic ligands. Bridging ligands bond to more than one metal centre while multi-haptic ligands bond to the same metal centre multiple times.

Coordination Bridges and Hapticity von Ayraethazide ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International Lizenz.

[saeede5]

“Our sensory experience of the world originates in the interior sensation of the mouth, and the world tends to return to its oral origins. The most archaic origin of architectural space is in the cavity of the mouth”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of the Skin

[saeede5]

“There is a hunger of the eyes, and doubtless there has been some permeation of the visual sense, as of touch, by the once all embracing oral impulse”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of The Skin

[saeede5]

“Good architecture offers shapes and surfaces moulded for the pleasurable touch of the eye. ‘Contour and profile are the touchstone of the architect,’ as Le Corbusier put it, revealing a tactile ingredient in his otherwise ocular understanding of architecture”

Pallasmaa,J. The Eyes of The Skin

[saeede5]

“Skin reads the texture, weight, density and temperature of matter”

Pallasmaa,J. The Eyes of the Skin

[saeede5]

“A particular smell makes us knowingly re-enter a space completely forgotten by the retinal memory; the nostrils awaken a forgotten image, and we are enticed to enter a vivid daydream”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of the Skin