Today we visited Wymering Manor and did various collective activities in order to understand the symphony of the site. We ex[plained our Breath in an artistic approach which was an entirely new experience for me.
Designated Site Name: WYMERING MANOR
Heritage Category: Listed Building grade II*
Site Type: Domestic > Country house
Locality: Cosham
Research and Analysis
The Bruning family constructed the home in the latter part of the sixteenth century. The Brunings belonged to an upper social class, but as Catholics, they would have been a religious minority during a period when Protestantism was gradually shaping England's identity. Since then, a variety of people have called the Manor home, including the parish vicar who founded an Anglican religious order there in the nineteenth century, the British army during World War II, and, most recently, countless guests during its time as a youth hostel.
The house's materials and furnishings itself attest to the way it has been used over the ages. It creates a lot of mysteries for historians, architects, and other researchers because it's not always obvious when, by whom, or for what reason alterations were made.
Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind
Charles Spence
Traditionally, architectural practice has been dominated by the eye/sight. In recent decades, though, architects and designers have increasingly started to consider the other senses, namely sound, touch (including proprioception, kinesthesis, and the vestibular sense), smell, and on rare occasions, even taste in their work. As yet, there has been little recognition of the growing understanding of the multisensory nature of the human mind that has emerged from the field of cognitive neuroscience research.
This review therefore provides a summary of the role of the human senses in architectural design practice, both when considered individually and, more importantly, when studied collectively. For it is only by recognizing the fundamentally multisensory nature of perception that one can really hope to explain a number of surprising crossmodal environmental or atmospheric interactions, such as between lighting colour and thermal comfort and between sound and the perceived safety of public space.
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