189> covering, detail, layering, structure, tectonics
> ground, heaviness and lightness, layering, structure, tectonics
> movement, sequence, spatial structure, route
> context, landscape, place, residence, structure, urban design
> intermediate space, threshold
> arcade, hall, intermediate space, space-containing wall,
square and street> body (architectural), density (spatial), heaviness and light-
ness, materiality, poché, porosity, space-body continuum
> materialityThat architecture, down to its smallest details, is able to stim-
ulate our senses is due to its materiality. To be sure, architec-
ture as ‘imagined space’ (Boudon 1991), as a concept, or as a
drawn design, is recognizable already on an intelligible level.
As pure form, it can be presented abstractly in a scale model,
yet it begins to affect our senses only once it has been tangibly
materialized. In the absence of a sensitive and differentiated
materialization, even a real building often makes a peculiarly
abstract, intellectual or formalist impression. The term ‘ma-
teriality’ refers not only to the circumstance that architecture
is realized with the assistance of building materials, but also
to the fact that a material expresses its specific properties and
idiosyncrasies through its outward appearance, so that char-
acteristic > appeals emanate from it.
All of our senses participate in the perception of mate-
riality, to some extent through > synaesthesia as well. The
> haptic aspect has priority, of course, but > sound and
> aroma are decisive as well, and even the sense of taste can
be synaesthetically effective. Vision, on the other hand, does
not deliver the most intensive experience, as it does in percep-
tions of form, but instead so to speak transmits visual stimuli
onward towards haptic perceptual capacities. Not only canLoad-bearing frame
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