They regenerate their own atmosphere according to the real-time interactions of environmental conditions and human behaviour. New technologies however, are being integrated into buildings and pavilions themselves to overcome this time-sensitive atmospheric estrangement. Often the atmosphere is a particular outcome of the context of its realisation/creation that can lose its relevance in new scenarios (similar to that of artworks that have been mechanically reproduced – a parallel explored by Walter Benjamin). Atmosphere is a “continuous propagation” of time, space and user. This could be related to historical events, popular culture, physical surroundings. What is critical in both discourses is that the perceived atmosphere of a place is deeply connected to the time-specific context (its place in history) of the experience itself, not to mention the state or mood of the visitor themselves.
While Peter Zumthor in his 2003 lecture on “Atmospheres” describes it as a timeless culmination of visual qualities embedded in a design. Walter Benjamin in his 1935 essay “ T he Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” argues that the aura of a work of art is unique to its “presence in time and place”. On one hand, as the physical particles that make up the air of a place on the other hand, as the character or aura which surrounds and defines a place. In this essay on atmosphere in architecture we will look at atmosphere as two-fold.
A reflection on the design of atmosphere and how it is perceived in contemporary architecture
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