As a student of architecture, I proposed myself to study the material approach by the architect, and the strict respect of its relations with humans. How is that matter is composed, where it came from, what’s their structure, such ontological questions as who we are, where we came from, issues that I believe are dependent on the origins of the universe, the origin of everything. I have to get the results of studies of science, concrete results of those who sought to know what things are made, focusing as well on the studies of Stephen Hawkins and the theories of Albert Einstein, on the formation of the universe until where we are today, where I see a great relationship with the study of man, evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, who eagerly watching as the matter came from a burst of energy that forced the appearance of several condensations of energy and as a bacterium originated millions of years evolution that led to the condensation energy living in an unbroken lineage of evolution and adaptation to the environment that surrounds us.
These sources from which I call us a whole. From there, thinking how we are connected with the matter and all living beings. How do we feel the field, such as stone and wood. I like this practical example: the water. We know that water in the springs of the mountain comes from the stone, years of condensation and compression factors allow free water to form a spring, flowing later in the creation of a line of water (rivers or lakes). Looking to a stone in naked eye, will be difficult to perceive where is the water, but we can see microscopically observing the particles that make up the molecular structure of stone, a material aspect of this reasoning leads me to believe that in the man, we know that we are composed of 80 % water, but do not see it, because our molecular structure is different, our structure only contains water in a different way. Therefore we are not so far from the stone or water. Being this close so microscopic, far from the visible and perceptible by the human eye, but how is not so far from our senses react to what we make up with which surrounds us?
Recently I watched a study by a Japanese scientist Dr Masaru Emoto on the effect of thoughts on water, the study was composed of the following, he took six samples of water from a spring, samples analyzed later the molecular structure under the microscope, after investigating, he asked a Zen monk to bless a water sample, then examined the sample again noticing that was taken aback by the change in the molecular structure of water, the crystals had won a new order and, all with a gesture of consciousness of a human. Surprised at the findings, he suggested in handling each of the other samples with a thought on an emotion, love, pain, happiness, grumpy. He put a label on each sample and waited until the next day. After analyzing each of the samples all had changed its molecular structure, incredibly under the emotions of love and happiness created a new order nice and clear while pain and evil crystals had been deformed and gain a dirty color .
The question that arises in this experiment is that we are composed of about 80% water so, in which way the power of thought can have on our body and even more about the materials what surrounds us; because like the water is a living structure, stone and wood and many other materials are living elements in their own density. How can the subject of materials influence the mind and body both irrationally nad rationally. And how the architect as a craftsman in the field can create a space with such matter.
From this point of scientific departure, still rather vague, but promising, I attempt to jump deeper to the understanding of being, quite apart from our physical makeup, we have a conscience. By understanding the philosophy, psychology and sociology, we have tried to understand how we form the consciousness of our being, in which steps is emancipated the man on his thinking. The ontological issues we face … who we are, where we come from, …. Lately, what we are doing here! To try to answer in my case, my questions in the second row (first science) in seeking the answer to the philosophy that we are concerned, the matter or the object (material, built or not) of a particular experience. Apart from the knowledge Is put a meditation on the Cartesian doubt a point of departure, and the first data of absolute knowledge awareness -> acquired by experience / experiment <-> and a reflection on it. Looking to suspend the trial of the matter, but describe the experience of the matter (since I leave the trial for the physical science). Thus the phenomenon of what is given will be aware, and we hold to feel or remember in the course of our existence. I remember the Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard, to look for the relationship between man and space with those who best describes (not rationally but emotionally, the result of a past experience stored in consciousness), the poet.
The poet describes the space as it is not, but how we feel, the phenomenology of man in space as common as the house, the attic, the drawer and the handle of a door, images of everyday life that the particularity of being, consists in all the senses stored in our mind. This experience makes up the magic that has the influence of space on our being, notions of protection, comfort, room, the origin to the formation of our consciousness. We can not remember the first steps of our house, although it is curious that when I climbed the steps back as we always have while you lived there, we do not think, just react, or how we put out to open the handle, makes us remember how many times we went through that door, and incredibly in a deeper sense, as a smell, a keen sense back to the memory in a metaphysics as the first place we inhabit, a place that has made known to the protection of time and external phenomena. Knowing the magic of the place, matter and man, how the architect has a phenomenal power to create spaces with an area for a matter of conscience. The order establishing the creation of a liaison between man and nature, the function that is attributed to an architectural object, easily seen, the threshold of what is not noticeable … the spatial dimension and material that affects the senses, the phenomenon we live without thinking that we live in a metaphysical level to which we are not aware on a daily basis for what unites us is more than we think.
Francisco c.p. Vasconcelos