intuitive studio

Priyam Agrawal

can there be a standard process for intuitive designs ?

I believe, there cannot be one prescribed formula when you are designing for feelings. To design a space for soul and to build a sensation through architecture, one must engage with memories of life experiences and reflective knowledge of phenomenons. An architecture that is easy to feel is difficult to create. It requires personal engagement and an intimate relationship with the whole process of design.

To develop an atmospheric sensation is a way of working with lived experience and adding new experiences. Each building provides a new challenge to me and an opportunity for a new design approach to develop an atmospheric architecture.
Through research and the three projects presented, I have tried to identify different triggers that have helped me in designing experience from a certain intuitively established idea of a space.

**the image** : producing sketches/creating spatial themes, very early in the design process that explore reflex reactions to general project factors.
The nature of these early, intuitive, sketches could be non committal but are gestural, expressive, and conceptual, and do not fully anticipate the

**memories and associations** :
A memory that is a collective of moments created at a particular time evoked in a distinct place would become a narrative to approach to create the atmosphere. Using remembrance of lived memories to create new ones. associations in the form of literature, photographs or art to create a narrative for the space.

**sensory triggers** :
an approach to stimulate all the senses, to create a holistic immersion for the user, and to create a dialogue between mind, body and the built environment.
The sensory modalities that are involved in spatial perception in humans are sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing.

**definitions** : The definition of the design problem can be done by documenting and internally analyzing emotional and natural responses to design problem specifics such as site or program.
Using intuitive reactions to site conditions to frame the design problem and seek inspiration from site related factors.

**making of sense** : investigating the theory established through different modes of exploration. use of models, differ ent modes of sketches , collages and literature writings to understand and further develop a narrative of the atmosphere to be created.

**The matrix of triggers** :
The process of identifying triggers for a project involves identification of limited number of qualitative assessment through the 'Matrix of Triggers' below. It is concerned with insights and understanding, and above all my own intuitive impressions

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