A ongoing study: CHASING the sublime

A rose is beautiful. It is an object that withers with time. It evokes a feeling of joy when the petals are full of life. However when we describe something that is sublime, it is an experience that becomes more than a memory.

Many architectural projects or explorations begin with context and purpose. By eliminating context and preexisting concepts creates a bottom up exploration, which results in a focus on qualities and effects in space. 

object qualities explore a sense of smallness and tangibility.

There are multiple scales in which an individual experiences entity and space. By being able to touch and hold these objects allows for an understanding of the object as a whole.

The key components of recognizing the object are through its massing, shape, proportion, depth and perception. However, these qualities are lost when these objects become inhabitable at a larger scale. 

At a larger inhabitable scale, the object detaches from the individual.

The relationship is no longer in the realm of smallness and tangibility but through inhabit ability. At an architectural scale the object qualities that create notions of smallness no longer exist through experience in the inhabitable scale. The shift from being able to relate to the object at a close proximity becomes incapable to fathom when the scale increases. 

The main issue with maintaining an object quality through multiple scales exists in the relationship between the individual and the object. This effect significantly minimizes the sense of space. To maintain the object quality through smallness and tangibility, the relationship between the individual and the object should remain intact throughout the architecture at a larger scale. The qualities that are projected through these scales require the same notion of a known object.

The details that are revealed at each scale correspond to how the individual interacts with the object and space.