The Museum of the Senses

Project: The Museum of the Senses

Location: Coimbatore

Plot Area: 47480 Sq.m

Built-up Area: 16759 Sq.m

Plot Coverage:  21%

Concept:
Poetic Architecture is the art of shaping, combining and assembling simple, reasonably priced construction materials and providing the right guidance for ordinary, competent craftsmen to transform – at an affordable cost – the raw, amorphous materials of construction into a living, aesthetically satisfying building. The Sense of Light. Light is an important parameter for humans to sense and perceive the spaces surrounding them, and the character of the light in a given space can be seen to influence our mood and wellbeing. Light describes our environments – and light and shadow tell us about form, materials, texture, rhythm and history. Tactile architecture is architecture that is experienced via touch. Tactile design focuses on the sense of touch. … The sense of touch is just as important as the visual, acoustic, and olfactory senses in order to understand the properties of a product and evaluate its design: for example, smooth surfaces tend to feel cold and repellent, and very rough surfaces feel sharp or brittle.

Advantages of the use of the circle and the sphere in architecture:

1. Savings in surfaces of walls and enclosures.
2. Increase in energetic efficiency, thanks to a minor surface of heat transference’s better behavior regarding winds and solar radiation. In a facade of perpendicular walls, the orientations are direct.
3. However, in the facades of a curved form the orientations are diluted, improving the use of the solar radiation and diminishing the penalized surfaces fir their orientation concerning the loss or gain of heat.

Circle in architecture
1.  The Circle is a universal symbol with extensive meaning. It represents the notions of totality, wholeness, focus, infinity, unity, timelessness, the Sun, the Moon, the entire Universe. This bold and basic geometry.