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Extension of the eyes

P O S T blindfolded them selves in oder to experience the world without seeing. Without your sight you have to depend on your other senses, like touch, sound, smell etc. To remove sight from your perception you become aware of that you use your other senses to orient yourself more than you think. We where surprised that the tactility of our feet were so important and that it was hard to estimate distances. The sound of surrounding objects were surprisingly confusing us more than helping.

When we design spaces and buildings it´s important to consider that we have more than just one sense. We experience architecture not only by one stimulus. Our experience of architecture is an interaction between all our senses and this should be regarded in the design.

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The first snow

P O S T look out the window and see the snowflakes fall down. That makes us long for the north and Jukkasjärvi.

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Spatiality

P O S T have made a 1:1 sketch model of the pavilion to investigate the dimension and the spatiality. We wanted to se how the different parts of the building worked together and the movement within the building.

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Memories of a building

P O S T have made a workshop about our memory. We investigated how different a buildning and space can be remembered. We visited several buildings in Gothenburg. Before we entered the buildings we split up and asked our selves what we expected of the building. What the atmosphere of the building would be and the physical features of it. Inside the building we wandered around and tried to intake the atmosphere of it.

After our visits to different buildings we let a few days pass before we sat down to discuss what we remebered. We waited because we didn´t want our memories to be fresh. We wanted to give them a chance to live their own lives. We asked each other what we remebered and it was striking how much we remebered and how alike our memories of the atmospheres and the physical apperence of the buildings were.

Does this show that our memories are good and that the buildings we visited had features easy to remember? And when our memories differs it is the emotional ones more than the memories of the physical features. Or could this be because one´s memories awakend the other one´s memories. Was the memories rubbed off? Did you come up with memories by your self that wasn´t yours from the first place?

After this discussion we talked about buildings and places that we had visited together years ago. Some of the buildings we both had a strong memory about. In other cases one of us remebered a place almost in detail while the other one didnt even remember being in the building.

What makes certain buildings and their aura live on in our memory? We belive it´s buildings that have had a strong inpact on you, whether it´s positive or negative. Memories are deeply connected to features like smell, sound, vision,temperature and tactile elements. For example a well known smell can trigger a memory about a place. Are one or many of these features strong in a building you will have a richer memory of it. Buildings can also awaken emotional memories in you. For example the memory of a funeral in one church can be brought back to live in a completely different church by the sound of church bells for examples.

The memory is like a wild horse, it´s hard to control.

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Fire and food

P O S T have now performed their fire-workshop. We wanted to investigate the time it takes for a log to burn out. We also wanted to explore the other qualities of firewood. The sound, the smell, the warmth and the visual impact that a fire can give. It is striking how a fire immediately gives you a sense of calm and restfulness. To set a fire also awakens childish qualities in you. It´s fun to set a fire and in a playful way investigate it. Under the right circumstances fire is not harmful but a tool and sometimes even a necessity for survival. It provides warmth, protection and security. It can also be used for food preparation, like hot dogs for example.

An armful of firewood took about 1.5 hours to burn out. We calculated that the firewood in the pavilion will last for approximately 20 days.

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Longing

P O S T´s essay is emerging.
The first assignment you get as an architecture student at Chalmers School of Architecture is to answer the question "What is architecture to you?" After four years in architecture school we are now facing our last assignment and ask ourselves the same question again "What is architecture to us?"

With this question as a starting point we sat down and had a first discussion about master thesis subject and content. We discussed our view and perception of architecture, the structure of the education and previous projects that we had done on our own or together at Chalmers.
We also talked about what fascinates us, not only in architecture but also in music, arts, phenomenon, books etc. To the discussion both of us brought pictures to illustrate what move us in those topics. It appeared that in some cases we had brought the same pictures and in all the pictures we had brought, there was a common thread. All objects in the pictures had the same feeling and emotion. At first we found it difficult to describe what this could be. But the more we talked about it the more visible a common thread became. The images expressed a longing. A longing to get away and a longing for the origin.