BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE

Abstract

Nature has always inspired man; it has functional and aesthetic muse. In this era of high technology and development man is getting away from the true nature and his existence in it and this life is constantly moving him away from the connections to the earth. In today's architecture too we find the laxity of the body and the senses, which deprived the user from experiencing the true soul of a space in nature. We need for an architecture that provide slowness where you have a pause by which you can absorb and grasp the moments from moving through space to space which can evokes your senses through that experience "Architecture requires slowness in order to develop again a cumulative knowledge, to accumulate a sense of continuity and to become enrooted in culture." [JuhaniPallasmaa, "Six themes for the next millennium"] The thesis is more about to provide a user with a space that have natural silence not in literal terms but metaphorically in spiritual way. This thesis seeks an understanding of self and place through built form, the spaces where for instance you see the dramatically effects of light peeping in from the voids falling on the floors and make it shine with the divinity, these spaces actually takes you to the world of thoughts where you find yourself. I believe that through a consideration of ourselves within this world we can begin to have a true understanding of our place and meaning within it so when you realizing and understanding of yourself you are at a stage where you are connected to nature and by then you can actually understand it, So the main idea of the project is to look into the architecture that is close to nature, by bringing the landscape in relation to the building component and by translating the real essence of nature , the spiritual one through architectural expressions. The project has a sensitive response to the existence of the man in nature and his relation to the rest of the world. So the idea is to design aresort in highly dense nature which will provide the user with the opportunity to have peace and rich experience and which will disconnect him from the hectic lives. The intend to design this resort is to explore architecture that is blended in nature, providing spiritual essence so that the end product helps to appeal and evoke the user senses by interacting with the natural surroundings. The idea of this project is to explore the true soul of nature experience that how by integrating the architectural component with nature you can actually bring out a space that helps the user to hear the sounds of serenity and solitudes.