Event-Space And The Vitality Of Place

"Architecture provide and organize the human activities through materialized entities and space①". During the area of architectural design philosophy,"Proceed from Event", which advocates to bring event into space and to start designing with planning event occurrence, becomes an emerging design idea. By observing architectural space from the perspective of event, the human subjective experience and response turn into a part of design, the architecture is regarded as the place where the situation happened, the concerns of architecture change from aesthetic function to environment effects, and the result of architectural design turns from obtaining spatial entities to concerning the changing process of influence. This article regards the architectural space which stimulates place vitality as event space.In this dissertation, the theoretical source of spatial entity is deeply traced through sorting out the exploring skeletons of "space and perception", and the design technique which comes from the concept of "organized event" is summarized for providing the idea about stimulating architectural place vitality. The research contents are as follows:1. The concept of "event space", the philosophical relationship between perception and space, and the psychological impacts of various space factors on consciousness are discussed in detail. Furthermore, the influence factors of space experience are analyzed via connecting physiological principles such as vision and cognizing process.2. The source of design idea of event space is traced and then enlightened ideas are provided:from Deleuze’s "Diversity and Diversification" to "Situation Constructing and Atmosphere Traversing" provided by Situationist International, and the spontaneous formation of event space in commercial building. The ideas above are deemed to be utilized and be profound influence on the contemporary design of event space.3. The design technique of event space, which are extracted from the works of typical architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas and Kazuyo Sejima, et al, are elaborated from streamline, atmosphere, and interface as well as function. organization, and then practiced in the personal design works.