Psychological Absence When Receiving Study On Perceiving Attendance, Absences and Impurities

Authors

• Harith Abd Hameed, Psychological Research Center/University of Baghdad
• Hala Abdulwahab saeed, Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Document Type

Original Study

Abstract

Architecture today aims to achieve poetics and eloquence in the architectural form, through which the pluralism and enrichment of meanings is achieved, and which achieves the involvement of the recipient in the creative process and his participation in the production of the text. In this case, the recipient will create bridges between the elements of the presence and the elements Absence and the text continues to acquire meanings and meanings as long as we have something to provide it with, and its meanings are only implemented by the limits of the reader’s experience and imagination. This research came to clarify how the recipient perceives absence in architecture and how the psychological (psychological) aspects influence the perception of absence and to clarify the psychology of presence and absence in architecture. This process begins with the recipient's role in their sensory perception, followed by initial emotional response. Then, they begin to fill in the gaps, evoke absence, and finally arrive at the final gestalt of the architectural work. The research is structured around six axes. The first axis introduces the concept of perception and perceptual studies in architecture, as well as gestalt theory and its connection to architecture. The second axis clarifies presence and absence and related concepts such as displacement, difference, and communication. All of this contributes to the third axis, which focuses on the perception of absence in architecture by identifying the subtle aspects and their impact on the perception of presence and absence in literature and poetry as other fields of knowledge. The fourth axis explains the role of the recipient in perceiving presence and absence in architecture and the psychological impact of perceiving absence, while the fifth axis specifies the cognitive framework of the research by extracting the most important vocabulary regarding perceiving absence in architecture.

Recommended Citation

Abd Hameed, Harith and saeed, Hala Abdulwahab (2003) "Psychological Absence When Receiving Study On Perceiving Attendance, Absences and Impurities," Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 4.