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Kinesthetics Quality of Space

The document discusses kinesthetic qualities of space through examples of Japanese gardens and the Old Imperial Hotel in Tokyo designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It describes how the gardens and hotel incorporate changes in level, irregular paths, and small spaces to engage the body and muscles through movement. This brings proprioceptive senses like balance and spatial awareness into play, creating a distinctly kinesthetic experience of the space unlike typical Western designs.

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Kinesthetics Quality of Space

The document discusses kinesthetic qualities of space through examples of Japanese gardens and the Old Imperial Hotel in Tokyo designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It describes how the gardens and hotel incorporate changes in level, irregular paths, and small spaces to engage the body and muscles through movement. This brings proprioceptive senses like balance and spatial awareness into play, creating a distinctly kinesthetic experience of the space unlike typical Western designs.

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KINESTHETIC QUALITIES OF

SPACE
KINESTHETIC
The sensation of movement or strain in
muscles, tendons, joints.
Proprioceptive Senses
This sensory system is composed of two
separated systems:
Vestibular System
"It involved with motor functions that allow us to
keep our balance, stabilize our head and body
during movement, and maintain posture.
Kinesthetic System
The sensation of movement or strain in
muscles, tendons, joints. Old Imperial Hotel, Tokyo
KINESTHETIC
Old Imperial Hotel, Tokyo designed by Frank Japanese gardens are not only designed to
Lloyd Wright be viewed with the eyes but more than the
- Provides the Westerner with a constant usual number of muscular sensations are
visual, kinesthetic, and tactile reminder that built into the experience of walking through.
he is in different world. The visitor periodically forced to watch his
- The changing levels, the circular, walled-in, step as he picks his way along irregularly
intimate stairs to the upper floors, and the spaced stepstones set in a pool. At each
small scale are all new experiences. The long rock, he must pause and look down to see
halls brought to scale by keeping the walls where to step next. Even the neck muscles
within reach. Wright as an artist in the use of are deliberately brought into play. Looking up,
texture, used the roughest of bricks, then he is arrested for a moment by a view that is
separated them by smooth, grilled mortar set broken as soon as he moves his foot to take
in from the surface a full half-inch. up a new perch.
KINESTHETIC
KINESTHETIC

In the use of interior space, the Europeans tend to fill up the edges
Japanese keep the edges of their by placing furniture near or against
rooms clear because everything walls.
takes place in the middle.
CIRCULATION

Study pages 251-303 of Francis D.


K. Ching, Form Space and Order,
Latest Edition

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