(De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde)
Space-Time: An Exploration of the Relationship of Human Time Perception and the Built Environment
Time is an essential element in living under modern society, it is an element both finite and infinite in nature. It is both absolute and subjective. In this project, time is inspected in the perceived way and how humans perceive time.
The physical, built environment is a major influence on human behavior. People are drawn to spend time on spaces that they feel comfortable being in and using. At times, designers and non-designers feel alienated from each other– the reason being designers having different standards of aesthetics which then translates to spaces for non-designers that makes them feel disconnected and trapped. Another by-product of design not being properly received by its users is time distortion or temporal disintegration– a phenomenon of perceiving time speeding up or slowing down.
Time distortion can be investigated by simulating spaces with specific architectural elements using virtual reality and augmented reality, making it possible to record users’ time perception in a space.
This project explores and redefines the temporal-spatial experiences with the use of subjective human time perception towards the built environment as empirical data–allowing the optimization of perceived time in a space as a new interpretive, exploratory methodology in architecture.
