MATERIALITY AND SENSIBILITY: PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDIES OF BAMBOO, CONCRETE, BRICK AND WOOD AS ARCHITECTURAL MATERIAL

• Main Author: Sofian, Tony
• Format: Dissertations
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/52334
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The ongoing challenge for architects today is how to design architectural projects that support the creation of meaningful experiences, taking advantage of the link between building materiality and human sensitivity. New technologies, especially developments in architectural design study tools seem to make the relationship between architects, users, and architectural works increasingly distant. Today's architecture is expected to be able to compose architectural designs that support the formation of meaningful experiences through our body's sensory systems. The objectives of this dissertation are: (1) Revealing the character of bamboo, concrete, brick, and wood as architectural material, through a number of buildings selected as case studies. (2) Describe the relationship between materiality and sensibility through spatial experience experienced by research participants. (3) Describe the case study of participants on materiality and sensibility from bamboo, brick, concrete, and wood materials. This research was carried out through several analytical reviews of various theories and studies in philosophy, anthropology and architecture such as Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger (Philosophy of Phenomenology), Daniel Miller and Bruno Latour (Anthropology), Christian Norbert- Schulz and Juhani Pallasmaa (Philosophy of Philosophy) Phenomenology in Architecture), and others. The research method used is the research method of Phenomenology. This study describes the steps of phenomenology to bridge the union between materiality and sensibility. This dissertation concludes that giving meaning by human sensibility to material can form a bridge of unity between materiality and sensibility through the senses possessed by humans.