How observers perceive the verticality of a gothic cathedral interior along with the change of its height? Eye tracking survey part III

Marta Rusnak, Joanna Szewczyk, Piotr Chmielewski

doi:10.37190/arc200307

Abstract

This paper constitutes last part of a three-part report considering an eyetracking survey that took place in 2017 at the Department of History of Architecture, Art and Technique at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. The first part of the report discussed the way people perceive the depth of the nave of agothic church. The second stage of research discused the phenomenon of so called “tunnel church”. This part of the study, the same as previous ones, made use of visualizations of 13th and 14th century French cathedrals. The researchers were interested in how much the slenderness of the nave of the Gothic cathedral translates into the perception of the entire cevolving interior.