| The current state of architecture is one that has turned away from materiality and is disconnected from crafted details for the scale of the human body and perception. The physicality of architecture should relate, mediate and project meaning, directing our consciousness back to the world and towards our sense of self and being. The body has a need for physicality, objects (books) and spaces, for use and for perceptual experience..;Drawing upon the works of Merleau-Ponty, this thesis understands perception as the facticity encounter of the lived-body, 'flesh', in this 'world', where the body is fully of the world, and the world is meaningfully given through the body. Perception does not simply end with sensations, but leads us to create (physical) forms of our understanding of the world. This thesis then uses the relation of 'flesh' in the 'world' as a concept for the relation of the book in the library, where the book and library presuppose each other and rely on each other for significance and meaning. The spatial quality of a library does not only engage the reader in the enjoyment of a book, but it can also sensually engage the totality of the body in spatial experience beyond sight. |
