[Reader-list] THE SPACE INTERLUDE/5TH POSTING
Via: sayandeb mukherjee
VTH POSTING
THE MAINFRAME
In the following years apartment became the basic
structure of most of the residential
buildings and whatever architectural improvisations
were attempted was executed with this
configuration in mind. Single/Double storied
independent family houses rarefied whereas
apartments or like buildings clouded the cityscape
generating a new look altogether. In some
cities like Kolkata, Hyderabad, it also happened that
these houses (as mentioned above) were
destructed and above the recreated space raised huge
multi-storied apartments giving
accommodation to considerable number of families. The
families were put into units, as
mentioned before as flats and this multiple
existence of different families (with no
inter-relationship in most cases) under one roof
generated a new sociological structure of
neighborhood, a new lifestyle with spatially
adjustable qualities imposed in the dwellers
mind, a new philosophy of life. The space of my
interest is the passage between these flats
that exist in the fashion of rows. We can say it is a
kind of re-incarnated space that got
extinct with the death of big mansions, palaces, and
havelis and with the rising of small
houses, then again took rebirth with the rising of
these apartments. It is the corridor
space apparently looks like a tube with openings at
regular intervals which are actually
the interface of different flats. These spaces are the
unavoidably emerged caves of modern
civilization.
The space has undergone more of a functional
displacement than the structural one. In the
earlier establishments, the corridor space was
integrated inside the palace or haveli and
was used by the members of the same big family. But
todays apartment corridors are not
entirely private and are instantly accessible to the
flat owners whore not necessarily
inter-related to each other. For the configuration of
todays residential corridor spaces
and for the sociological state (that it provides
instantaneous interference to unfamiliar
territories with the immediate opening of my flats
main door) it imbibes conventional
similarities with hospitals, educational institutions
and many other public spaces. For this
reason, when I come out of my flat subconsciously I
bear a feeling of walking in a hospital
or a college corridor. Also it is a common space
accessible to other flat owners. It is
therefore, appears as a grey zone possessing the
duality of personal space (for having
proximity with the familial space) and a historically
intertwined space that has got
invisible visual similitude with outwardly public
(unprivatized) space. The deduction of
these subconscious trajectories leads to the fact that
these spaces are not psychologically
homogenous since it possesses multiple crossfades of
social conditioning. On every step in
the corridor one undergoes the dwindling away of the
secured familial space and the
introduction of the social space when one has to
mould/condition his self with the
mannerisms or interactive fashions of the society. The
corridor spaces will
characteristically differ not necessarily due to
architectural dissimilarities but the
relation that it inherits with the SUPER-SPACE where
it is integrated. If the corridor is
included in a hospital his psychological state alters
from that when he is in his apartment
corridor. Another important aspect is the intersection
of time that cannot he disregarded
since because the thought pattern changes along the
length of the corridor. An extended
length of such a space will contribute to the
increasing curiosity of the intruder or will
render a memoryscape that could possess associative
elements of the user with the home he
is moving onto. These shades of emotions corresponding
to the situatedness of the corridor
space and the temporal factor will be discussed later.
Bringing the context of the apartment
corridor once again I will construct a situation where
a person is retreating from his
working space and has reached the apartment where he
lives in a small flat with his wife and
a kid. He takes the lift that brings him to a long
corridor _ the space that he has to walk
down to reach his flat which is the HOME of today. In
this transitory phase he will be
majorly pre-occupied with the thought that hes going
to meet the kid after a subsequent
time. Along with, he might be recollecting the
happenings at the working space or how he
spent chatting with his friend during a break or he
was humiliated by his higher official or
how his boss elated at his performance or /and might
as well think his future schedules. To
summarize, an user while transposing through this
space makes a conscious walk pre-occupied
by the thought of anticipation (>what he is going to
do next when he reaches the terminal of
the space or what could be the happenings that he is
going to face as he arrives here) or
recollection of the diurnal past (>what are the events
that happened on the very day, what
were the situations that he faced.. etc). What makes
this space characteristically
dissimilar is this self-consciousness (>certain layers
of consciousness that essentially
involves self only) that evaporates away in a social
space working or living. Another
viewpoint that entails with a derivative of
self-consciousness is the phenomenon of
perceptions. Karl Kupfmuller, a scientist, while
making a quantitative analysis of the
neurological synapses to the brain has found that
vision has long been to be our dominant
input. However, his study suggested that simulation of
even our conscious mind is almost
equally well achieved from visual compared to auditive
inputs. So the derivative is that,
were mostly visually pre-occupied; most of the time
were instinctively engrossed by the
visual extravaganza, thereby suppressing/overpowering
the auditive attributes of the space.
Therefore, most of the time, when we talk about
certain psychological phenomenon or
anomalies there remains a pre-consideration of the
visual perception. For example, while we
speak about VERTIGO, we try to comprise it by saying
it is a psychological weakness that
happens to the victim when he/she reaches a certain
height, he/she suffers from a tendency
of falling down from there. This height is a measure
derived from vision and its
acquaintance has nothing to do with other sensations.
But, for finding thoroughly the cause
of such an anomaly, one might consider other
perceptual attributes. As we go higher, there
happens a severe fall of the intelligibility of sound,
the details with which we perceive
certain sounds, gets attenuated as we reach a height.
What surmounts is an accumulation of
sounds from other distant sources; in other words
AUDIO-HORIZON continuously expands with
the height. Finally, as we reach a considerable
height, brightness of the sounds sourced
from the surface [- the ground level] is muted, the
circumference of audibility has
expanded. But importantly, a new frequency content in
the air is introduced that results in
a sonic-boom/boominess. This particular sonic property
boominess which deeply engulfs the
listener/observer is very unnatural and is not being
encountered in our everyday life. The
lack of acquaintance with such a sonic-scape will be
very annoying for the victim and could
be an attribute for such dizziness. But we dont
generally realize the auditory
differentiations because of the overpowering visionary
properties.
It is therefore, interesting to note the state of
perception and its psychological
manifestation as this visionary world is exterminated
like it happens in a double-loaded
(-to be discussed later) corridor space. As discussed
earlier, in terms of synapses, the
second strong receptor of perception is audio. So,
were more acoustically aware/conscious
as we enter these spaces .. to be continued.
SAYANDEB MUKHERJEE
FT#308, SUBBARAJU TOWERS,
ROAD NO.4, VIJAYAPURI COLONY,
KOTHAPET, HYDERABAD
PIN: 500 035
PH#9849383863
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VTH POSTING
THE MAINFRAME
In the following years apartment became the basic
structure of most of the residential
buildings and whatever architectural improvisations
were attempted was executed with this
configuration in mind. Single/Double storied
independent family houses rarefied whereas
apartments or like buildings clouded the cityscape
generating a new look altogether. In some
cities like Kolkata, Hyderabad, it also happened that
these houses (as mentioned above) were
destructed and above the recreated space raised huge
multi-storied apartments giving
accommodation to considerable number of families. The
families were put into units, as
mentioned before as flats and this multiple
existence of different families (with no
inter-relationship in most cases) under one roof
generated a new sociological structure of
neighborhood, a new lifestyle with spatially
adjustable qualities imposed in the dwellers
mind, a new philosophy of life. The space of my
interest is the passage between these flats
that exist in the fashion of rows. We can say it is a
kind of re-incarnated space that got
extinct with the death of big mansions, palaces, and
havelis and with the rising of small
houses, then again took rebirth with the rising of
these apartments. It is the corridor
space apparently looks like a tube with openings at
regular intervals which are actually
the interface of different flats. These spaces are the
unavoidably emerged caves of modern
civilization.
The space has undergone more of a functional
displacement than the structural one. In the
earlier establishments, the corridor space was
integrated inside the palace or haveli and
was used by the members of the same big family. But
todays apartment corridors are not
entirely private and are instantly accessible to the
flat owners whore not necessarily
inter-related to each other. For the configuration of
todays residential corridor spaces
and for the sociological state (that it provides
instantaneous interference to unfamiliar
territories with the immediate opening of my flats
main door) it imbibes conventional
similarities with hospitals, educational institutions
and many other public spaces. For this
reason, when I come out of my flat subconsciously I
bear a feeling of walking in a hospital
or a college corridor. Also it is a common space
accessible to other flat owners. It is
therefore, appears as a grey zone possessing the
duality of personal space (for having
proximity with the familial space) and a historically
intertwined space that has got
invisible visual similitude with outwardly public
(unprivatized) space. The deduction of
these subconscious trajectories leads to the fact that
these spaces are not psychologically
homogenous since it possesses multiple crossfades of
social conditioning. On every step in
the corridor one undergoes the dwindling away of the
secured familial space and the
introduction of the social space when one has to
mould/condition his self with the
mannerisms or interactive fashions of the society. The
corridor spaces will
characteristically differ not necessarily due to
architectural dissimilarities but the
relation that it inherits with the SUPER-SPACE where
it is integrated. If the corridor is
included in a hospital his psychological state alters
from that when he is in his apartment
corridor. Another important aspect is the intersection
of time that cannot he disregarded
since because the thought pattern changes along the
length of the corridor. An extended
length of such a space will contribute to the
increasing curiosity of the intruder or will
render a memoryscape that could possess associative
elements of the user with the home he
is moving onto. These shades of emotions corresponding
to the situatedness of the corridor
space and the temporal factor will be discussed later.
Bringing the context of the apartment
corridor once again I will construct a situation where
a person is retreating from his
working space and has reached the apartment where he
lives in a small flat with his wife and
a kid. He takes the lift that brings him to a long
corridor _ the space that he has to walk
down to reach his flat which is the HOME of today. In
this transitory phase he will be
majorly pre-occupied with the thought that hes going
to meet the kid after a subsequent
time. Along with, he might be recollecting the
happenings at the working space or how he
spent chatting with his friend during a break or he
was humiliated by his higher official or
how his boss elated at his performance or /and might
as well think his future schedules. To
summarize, an user while transposing through this
space makes a conscious walk pre-occupied
by the thought of anticipation (>what he is going to
do next when he reaches the terminal of
the space or what could be the happenings that he is
going to face as he arrives here) or
recollection of the diurnal past (>what are the events
that happened on the very day, what
were the situations that he faced.. etc). What makes
this space characteristically
dissimilar is this self-consciousness (>certain layers
of consciousness that essentially
involves self only) that evaporates away in a social
space working or living. Another
viewpoint that entails with a derivative of
self-consciousness is the phenomenon of
perceptions. Karl Kupfmuller, a scientist, while
making a quantitative analysis of the
neurological synapses to the brain has found that
vision has long been to be our dominant
input. However, his study suggested that simulation of
even our conscious mind is almost
equally well achieved from visual compared to auditive
inputs. So the derivative is that,
were mostly visually pre-occupied; most of the time
were instinctively engrossed by the
visual extravaganza, thereby suppressing/overpowering
the auditive attributes of the space.
Therefore, most of the time, when we talk about
certain psychological phenomenon or
anomalies there remains a pre-consideration of the
visual perception. For example, while we
speak about VERTIGO, we try to comprise it by saying
it is a psychological weakness that
happens to the victim when he/she reaches a certain
height, he/she suffers from a tendency
of falling down from there. This height is a measure
derived from vision and its
acquaintance has nothing to do with other sensations.
But, for finding thoroughly the cause
of such an anomaly, one might consider other
perceptual attributes. As we go higher, there
happens a severe fall of the intelligibility of sound,
the details with which we perceive
certain sounds, gets attenuated as we reach a height.
What surmounts is an accumulation of
sounds from other distant sources; in other words
AUDIO-HORIZON continuously expands with
the height. Finally, as we reach a considerable
height, brightness of the sounds sourced
from the surface [- the ground level] is muted, the
circumference of audibility has
expanded. But importantly, a new frequency content in
the air is introduced that results in
a sonic-boom/boominess. This particular sonic property
boominess which deeply engulfs the
listener/observer is very unnatural and is not being
encountered in our everyday life. The
lack of acquaintance with such a sonic-scape will be
very annoying for the victim and could
be an attribute for such dizziness. But we dont
generally realize the auditory
differentiations because of the overpowering visionary
properties.
It is therefore, interesting to note the state of
perception and its psychological
manifestation as this visionary world is exterminated
like it happens in a double-loaded
(-to be discussed later) corridor space. As discussed
earlier, in terms of synapses, the
second strong receptor of perception is audio. So,
were more acoustically aware/conscious
as we enter these spaces .. to be continued.
SAYANDEB MUKHERJEE
FT#308, SUBBARAJU TOWERS,
ROAD NO.4, VIJAYAPURI COLONY,
KOTHAPET, HYDERABAD
PIN: 500 035
PH#9849383863
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