Sense & Sensibility

Our hearing capability is always activated, and we have no biological ability to turn off our ears even when we are asleep. What has placed the sense of hearing in general and the act of listening in particular as an important and even more influential element in the human experiences - in the way we perceive, feel, and remember places.

One of the human factors responsible for activating our hearing and its influence on us is the field of music. The development of music in all its genres has spread throughout history and has brought with it spirits of cultural changes and influences on human life and its built environment.

The common guiding line for all genres is the structures that lead to the creation of a musical work. In other words, the structural rules of music are an equal point to how we perceive the process of building a foundation through the course of architectural design.

Like the effect of listening to a song on a person, the role of space or architectural space is to convey the visitor into a process, to move something within them. Its role is to create a platform for connecting people, developing different interpretations to a space, provoking discussion, arousing emotion, and above all activating the collective of senses. But the way in which every day spaces are planned in the Israel today, that is, the spaces between the residential buildings in the neighborhoods, lack the complete experience that architecture could give, if only given it 'breathing space' for creative and sensual planning.

The existing situation does not encourage a feeling of belonging nor does it encourage spaces for creating new interactions and experiences between the resident and his surroundings. This places us, architects and users as one, in the reality of monotonous architecture, of emptiness and of the loss of a broad sensory potential.

Therefore, in my project, I present how the values, history and foundation on which music is based on, can be combined and reembodied in order to waken the hibernation state neighborhood planning is standing.

The design of spaces was created by the process of translating musical building blocks into physical and architectural meanings. In this way, music is used as a generator for planning and not just as an inspiration for all that implies. The spaces are adapted to the neighborhood in which they are located and fill the shortage in the public programming framework of the place and as a result they allow a platform for experiential and sensory revitalization and human connection. The overall design produces a renewed intersection of values between the two worlds and pours into conventional and everyday architecture multilayered senses experience that have already been forgotten in the Israeli design atmosphere.   

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