Architectural notations
Katarzyna SÅ‚uchocka
doi:10.37190/arc200403
Abstract
The article presents the processes involved in the perception of architecture, including the sensory processes inherent in the differentiation of features of facilities (colour, form, size, texture, temperature, etc.) which imply a cognitive dialogue between space and its user. Existential space deemed as a designator of basic living conditions and comfort assumes another meaning in the cognitive context, where it constitutes a basic component of larger forms which expand by annexing individual components within its structure to address and meet the most vital needs of man.    The research aims to highlight the important function of space represented in images. Such images then play certain roles in our verbal communication, which is predetermined with the nature of the portrayed space, and as such translates into the quality of the picture/drawing/image itself. An architectural facility perceived as a piece of art underlies the form of its representation/imaging and strengthens the relations between particular space or a part thereof and its user. Irrespectively of the degree of emotional saturation existing between the designer and the context, the image of space (space imaging) attracts the viewers’ attention to the qualities, details or phenomena closely correlated with particular places. The process of transforming independent ideas of the author into the artistic expression effectively reveals the purposefulness of the application of the cognitive approach which allows for self-corrections of the design processes. Such an approach simultaneously demonstrates correlations between engineering and fine arts.    An image of an architectural facility can be a source of extensive information thereon and, in the form of design documentation, it can further, testify to individual approaches of the globally renowned leaders in the field and evidence the interdisciplinary nature of the profession of an architect. Therefore, the communicative and educative values of such images need to be particularly exposed and protected. As such they should rank higher both in the design process and collections of works classified as our national heritage.    The adopted research methods consist in the observations and the analysis of hand-made drawings and pictorials combined with the heuristic approach to architectural designing. This methodology assumes that the selection of observations made in the specific conditions of perception of architecture and its designing transposed upon autonomous artistic activities in fine arts in relation to a specific goal – being the optimisation of architectural output – will define the efficiency of interdependencies and correlations between the input data and, thus, will form a logical continuum, which implies the compliance with the guidelines discussed herein.