Affective Architecture. Film as a Sensory Transference Tool and an Intimacy Projection Environment

TY - GEN

T1 - Affective Architecture. Film as a Sensory Transference Tool and an Intimacy Projection Environment

AU - Petersen, Rikke Munck

AU - Farsø, Mads

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - This paper elucidates how film may offer itself as a tool for both the representation and conception of space that can strengthen an alternative, phenomenological and transcendental position in architecture. The paper underscores that the film camera can work as a kind of amplifier of how we, with our bodies, perceive space and project space. Through an analysis of two films, it points to the medium of film as both a tool and an environment, based on Gernot Böhme’s ‘Raum leiblicher Anwesenheit (Böhme 2006). These films illustrate how the film’s picture frame becomes almost like a skin and through its surface and sound projects both a site and a near-sensual experience simultaneously. The medium of film as both tool and an environment thereby supports an extended sensory-intimate reflection on outer experiences and inner sensations that – in its audio-visual and time-space-based presentation – is close to a human experience. This transference and performance may lead to an extended awareness of touch, as the base for intensive projections of becoming and a new affective architecture.

AB - This paper elucidates how film may offer itself as a tool for both the representation and conception of space that can strengthen an alternative, phenomenological and transcendental position in architecture. The paper underscores that the film camera can work as a kind of amplifier of how we, with our bodies, perceive space and project space. Through an analysis of two films, it points to the medium of film as both a tool and an environment, based on Gernot Böhme’s ‘Raum leiblicher Anwesenheit (Böhme 2006). These films illustrate how the film’s picture frame becomes almost like a skin and through its surface and sound projects both a site and a near-sensual experience simultaneously. The medium of film as both tool and an environment thereby supports an extended sensory-intimate reflection on outer experiences and inner sensations that – in its audio-visual and time-space-based presentation – is close to a human experience. This transference and performance may lead to an extended awareness of touch, as the base for intensive projections of becoming and a new affective architecture.

KW - Former LIFE faculty

KW - Atmosphere

KW - Film

KW - Intimacy

KW - affect

KW - Environment

KW - architectural design

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-2-9520948-6-3

VL - 1

SP - 207

EP - 212

BT - Congress proceeding

A2 - Rémy, Nicolas

A2 - Tixier, Nicolas

CY - International Ambiances Network & University of Thessaly

T2 - 3rd International Congress on Ambiances, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly6

Y2 - 21 September 2016 through 24 September 2016

ER -