Abstract

This article shows how the media of film can be integrated, explored and acan add value to architectural design studios and practice. It elucidates how film may offer an alternative position in architecture, where landscapes and cities are thought, planned and developed in closer relation to their spatial and sensory effects on humans. It underscores that the film camera can work as a kind of amplifer of how we, with our bodies, perceive space and project psace. In the Landscape film studio at the University of Copenhagen the film medium was tested as a combined registration and design tool for a new nature park south of Copenhagen. The final studio films and designs show how resonating recordings of sound, time, and a bodily presence may stimulate Einfühling that inspres an alternative architecture of relations: the ambient, the changeable and the volatile. They also emphasize that an ability to work with bodily experience in both physical space and abstract design space is strengthened throught the exploration of the film medium. Film becomes a "resonance tool" or "membrane" for the perceiver and conceiver, and contributes to a greater awareness of a bodily preconsciousness in architecture.

Keywords

Landscape, Film, Design, Einfühling, Architecture, teaching, studios

Published in

Architecture and Culture
2015, Volume: 3, number: 1, pages: 65-86

UKÄ Subject classification

Studies on Film
Architecture
Landscape Architecture


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2752/205078215X14236574273664

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/73875