Week 7 | Inspiration

Perception

After reviewing my design with the tutor and classmates in week 7. My concept idea of the Wing was undermined as being rather arbitrary in design terms which allowed me to strip back the idea to the original notion of perception. The Folie design was to illustrate the perception of the city and so I have begun to research the elements which compound "perception."

Perception relates to numerous postulations yet predominantly is the ability to see, hear, touch, taste, smell or become aware of something through sensory development. This leads to a developed intuitive understanding or insight founded on principles such as how the brain interprets this external stimuli in context of "reality."

Colour and perception of colour was of great interest to me. The images below when viewed at maximum size illustrate how the brain interprets colour information. The first image shows how the same colour encircled by different colours appear different and when viewed one after the other. The second image has approximately 1 million colours within the image, While the brain can interpret about 10 million colours, as the viewer tries to decipher the colours, the image appears to be altering in shade and tone depending on the position of the eyes focus.

The final image shows the area of the brain which connects to the retinal artery and further research may help develop a formalised architectural design.